Authority
Authority is tested when a decision meets resistance. This book opens a route into questions about boundaries, responsibility and the difference between having a clear position and needing others to submit to it.
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Read with attention to the source of legitimacy. Competence, explicit agreements and dependable conduct create a different relationship to power from intimidation or constant reassurance-seeking; the distinction matters in both private life and leadership.
A question to explore before reading
What supports your position when force and approval are unavailable?
Keep this question alongside your own experience as you compare the perspectives in the library.
Explore the subject first.
These original journal essays offer a way into related questions.
Leadership Begins with the Pressure You Stop Passing On
Everybody Laughed. Was Everybody Free to Disagree?A perspective for your reading
Read with attention to the source of legitimacy. Competence, explicit agreements and dependable conduct create a different relationship to power from intimidation or constant reassurance-seeking; the distinction matters in both private life and leadership.
A question to carry into the book
Continue this line of inquiry with CySociety. What behavior does a social arrangement reward even when it claims to oppose it?
Build your next reading connection
- CySociety — Social life is built from expectations, incentives and repeated forms of cooperation.
- NO PLAN, NO FUTURE — A future preference becomes a plan only when choices, resources and timing begin to connect.
- Power In Leadership — Leadership becomes visible in how decisions affect the people expected to carry them out.
