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Personal Power Vs Social Power

Personal Power Vs Social Power

Social Power is characterized by:

  • Ability to exert dominance.
  • To influence or control the behaviour of others.
  • Earned and expressed through disproportionate control over valued resources.
  • Social power is limited, requires some kind of control over others.

Personal Power

  • Freedom from the dominance of others.
  • Infinite instead of zero-sum.
  • Access to and control over limitless inner resources.
  • Makes us more open, optimistic and risk-tolerant.
  • Ability to control our own states and behaviours.

If we start with personal power, we may increase our social power without trying

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