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    Power and Influence

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    This document discusses the concepts of power and influence that were covered in a lecture. It defines power as the ability to get others to do something. There are different types of power that come from expertise, the ability to punish, or owning something scarce. The document uses examples of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg to illustrate how daring to be different and having expertise can lead to gaining power and influence. It also discusses a case study of an employee harming an organization and how the leader's inability to handle the situation rationally caused them to lose power and influence.

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    Power and Influence

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    This document discusses the concepts of power and influence that were covered in a lecture. It defines power as the ability to get others to do something. There are different types of power that come from expertise, the ability to punish, or owning something scarce. The document uses examples of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg to illustrate how daring to be different and having expertise can lead to gaining power and influence. It also discusses a case study of an employee harming an organization and how the leader's inability to handle the situation rationally caused them to lose power and influence.

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    This document discusses the concepts of power and influence that were covered in a lecture. It defines power as the ability to get others to do something. There are different types of power that come from expertise, the ability to punish, or owning something scarce. The document uses examples of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg to illustrate how daring to be different and having expertise can lead to gaining power and influence. It also discusses a case study of an employee harming an organization and how the leader's inability to handle the situation rationally caused them to lose power and influence.

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    Power and Influence

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    This document discusses the concepts of power and influence that were covered in a lecture. It defines power as the ability to get others to do something. There are different types of power that come from expertise, the ability to punish, or owning something scarce. The document uses examples of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg to illustrate how daring to be different and having expertise can lead to gaining power and influence. It also discusses a case study of an employee harming an organization and how the leader's inability to handle the situation rationally caused them to lose power and influence.

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    Power and Influence

    Power and Influence lecture taught us the basic concept of power in managerial term.
    Power means an ability to get another person to do something. There are also several types of
    power that someone possesses based on how he/she obtains. For example, someone might gain
    power because of their expertise, or he knows how to punish someone that’s why people perceive
    that he/she is powerful. An interesting point is also raised during the lecture that someone is
    perceived powerful when he/she owns something scarce that many people desire it so that power
    depends on the perception of the consensus.
    A characteristic of someone that has power is that usually they dare to be different, and they
    don’t play the game in the way people conventionally play it. Let’s take an example of Steve Jobs
    where he is brave enough to revolutionize the electronic device industry to the point that now even
    Apple becomes the industry leader in this industry and gain substantial power. This example alone
    sums up the characteristic of someone that has huge power where he dares to be different,
    establishes powerful brand, and uses power to dictate how the people should think. Another
    interesting case is Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg. In contrast to the vibrant and charismatic
    personalities of Steve Jobs, Mark is quite different. However, with his expertise, and a bit of luck, he
    gained popularity because of the product he developed that then converted into a powerful
    organization that people look up to.
    We worked for a case study of an organization that is in a bad situation because of the bad
    behavior of one employee. Basically, there is one employee that seems to be burning the
    organization by influencing people that the leader is bad and that they usually take their break time
    to gossip about how bad the company is. In response to this, the leader is also reacting emotionally
    by asking the HR manager to hire someone from questionable platform that will then let the
    employee he wants to fire finds this out. The inability of the organization’s leader to come up with
    rational solution to handle one employee that burned the organization influences how this leader
    loses his power. This is an important thing that people should maintain to keep the power at their
    hand to influence people.
    There are many points where it’s applicable to my life. I was building my own company
    previously in Japan before I returned to my own country, Indonesia. There are many situations
    where I think I could do better to gain more power and influence people to have a better outcome.
    What I could do is that I could capitalize more on my expertise and referent power so that it’s much
    easier to drive people to work towards the same vision. Especially when you are building a startup,
    it’s crucial to have power and use it to build the business because you need to make people moving
    with as few financial resources as possible. This is only possible by convincing people to work on
    something that is meaningful enough for them although each of them has their different
    motivations.
    This lecture combined with the Leading People and Organization lecture taught by Professor
    Fabian gave many meaningful insights on how to responsibly motivate people using the power that
    you have. In this modern landscape, the changes happen in a split second and we really need to
    manage a collaborative and highly motivated environment to maintain the high productivity level.
    This is only possible by quickly gaining the trust of the people and let them work in the same
    direction. When the power perception and trust aren’t there, it’s difficult to manage the team since
    there is a huge disparity in the organization and people will just move whenever they want to move
    and not in unison.

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