PART IV
Power Dynamics: How Power Is Lost and How Organizations Change
It is easy to get caught up in the micro-level descriptions of sources of power, the diagnoses of power and of situations, and the discussions of the strategies and tactics for employing power, and lose sight of what this book is really about—getting things done in organizations. We are interested in power as a means to make both ourselves and our organizations more effective and successful. This final section of the book begins by providing some cautionary ideas about how power is lost. One way of understanding power and its dynamics is by considering how power erodes. We will see in the first chapter of this section how even the mighty fall, and consider what this means ...
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