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Article: THE POTENCY OF POWER CAN BE EASILY DILUTED-OR DISTILLED.(Business)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 29, 1997
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Power. Our culture is obsessed with finding it and using it. It is built into the core of our national identity as a ``superpower.''
In the workplace, survival depends on understanding the ``power structure.'' We are always on the lookout for ``power plays.''
Despite our preoccupation with it, the nature of power is widely misunderstood, according to Blaine Lee, author of ``The Power Principle'' (Simon & Schuster, 1997, $25). Lee is a co-founder of the Covey Leadership Center in Utah and a former teacher of Stephen Covey, who went on to fame as the author of the ``Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.''
When people talk about their ...