Grasping Power: Re-Thinking the Active Ingredient in Leadership, Education, Parenting, Global Survival, Forgiveness, Restraint, Identity
Ebook
Overview
Bertrand Russell defines power as the ability to produce intended effects.
Robert Vecchio defines it as the ability to change the behavior of others.
Dacher Keltner defines power as your capacity to make a difference in the world by influencing the states of other people.
If Russell is right, then your every need, want, passion, cause, and ambition demands power.
If Vecchio is right, then power inhabits every act of teaching, encouraging, parenting, storytelling, leading, and mentoring future leaders.
If Keltner is correct, then my power changes your world, for better or worse.
What if they’re all right? What if power is all of the above?
Then, at the very least, we’d all benefit from a better grasp of power.
Schuyler Totman’s in-depth study of power is certainly an opportunity for us all to reexamine what power really means. Teachers, parents, domestic terrorists, executives, children, babies, kind strangers, even pets, use and negotiate power, whether consciously or not. Grasping Power describes, in meticulous detail, what’s happening when we engage with power.
——Laurel Wilson, author of The Attachment Pregnancy: The Ultimate Guide to Bonding with Your Baby
A remarkable work, probing deep into the everyday, every-interaction dynamics of power, Grasping Power unveils fresh insights into how power permeates all facets of our lives. What do we experience, exactly, as we employ it? Your understanding of power, including all the good we can do with it, will be challenged and expanded as you reflect on this superb study.
——Charles Causey, author of Candor: The Secret to Succeeding at Tough Conversations
- Title: Grasping Power: Re-Thinking the Active Ingredient in Leadership, Education, Parenting, Global Survival, Forgiveness, Restraint, Identity
- Author: Schuyler Totman
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Pages: 170
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781532663529, 9781532663512, 153266351X, 9781532663505, 1532663501, 1532663528
- Resource ID: LLS:9781532663529
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T17:32:09Z
Schuyler Totman is the founding resource at SameDoor Resources. He works with leaders and groups to manage and benefit from inevitable conflicts by understanding them before they happen. He is also a coach with Boot Camp for New Dads in Denver, Colorado.