QUOTATION 71
JOHN FRENCH JR AND BERTRAM RAVEN ON THE FIVE SOURCES OF SOCIAL POWER
Use this to identify the sources and level of power you have access to.
French and Raven wrote a seminal article in 1960 on the sources of social power. The following quotation refers to their most significant finding, i.e. that when you can access different sources of power, synergy occurs and your power expands significantly:
We shall point out the interrelationships between different types of power, and the effects … one type of power [has] upon [the] other bases of power [you possess].
John French Jr and Bertram Raven
The five sources of power identified ...
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