POWER: the Capacity to Cause, Impede or Prevent Change: ...and the Dynamics of Muscle, Money, Mind & Spirit
Book Details
Author(s)
Ramón Sánchez
Publisher
Ramon Sanchez
ISBN / ASIN
B01DZ0OHG4
ISBN-13
978B01DZ0OHG9
Sales Rank
#2,005,173
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
POWER
by Ramón Sánchez
Since everything that affects us is either the result of someone else’s power or our own, understanding power helps us to better appreciate the past and the present, as well as to better prepare us for what might lie ahead. And because we all have the capacity to cause, impede or prevent change, POWER is a force we all possess. To what extent is a matter of self-discovery.
Still, too many things take too long to get done, if they get done at all. Production and service factors important to business and non-profit sectors, including human capital, are being squandered, underutilized or allowed to sit idle, with the effect that economic and intellectual growth are stagnant, as society’s most pressing needs go underserved. Causing this problem is the fact that so many people in power are not really accountable to anyone, including themselves.
Centrally implicated in all our institutions (government, places of worship, marriage, family, work, every place involving human interaction), nothing of significance occurs without power. Wherever we go, power is a fact of life, a matter of course, a matter of control. Absent power, nothing is moved, lifted, dropped, ignored, developed, advanced, set back, or stays where it is; nothing happens without power being exercised, not even nothing.
The whole point of locating and examining power is to fix responsibility for the consequences that result from the action or inaction of those possessing it. Thus, understanding power permits us to comprehend how we might more quickly and easily address some of the issues confronting us. Continuing to operate oblivious to the dynamics of power only reinforces the status quo, making it unlikely that improvement will occur.
Solution: Addressing sources of power—muscle, money, mind and spirit—Sánchez isolates four power-centered behaviors critical to solving the accountability problem: 1. Discipline (the ultimate individual power)—the ability to focus, avoid distractions and resist impulses; 2. Duty—the responsibility to know [and act on] the difference between what is and the best that can be; 3. Critical Thinking—the process of making sense of the information around us; and 4. Action—acting out of a sense of urgency, recognizing that “for every dozen [people] with bright ideas there is at most one who can carry them out.”
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Ramón Sánchez has worked in academia, government and private industry, having held leadership positions at Motorola and the U.S. Department of Labor. Sánchez is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Graduate School of Management, and resides in Chicago.
by Ramón Sánchez
Since everything that affects us is either the result of someone else’s power or our own, understanding power helps us to better appreciate the past and the present, as well as to better prepare us for what might lie ahead. And because we all have the capacity to cause, impede or prevent change, POWER is a force we all possess. To what extent is a matter of self-discovery.
Still, too many things take too long to get done, if they get done at all. Production and service factors important to business and non-profit sectors, including human capital, are being squandered, underutilized or allowed to sit idle, with the effect that economic and intellectual growth are stagnant, as society’s most pressing needs go underserved. Causing this problem is the fact that so many people in power are not really accountable to anyone, including themselves.
Centrally implicated in all our institutions (government, places of worship, marriage, family, work, every place involving human interaction), nothing of significance occurs without power. Wherever we go, power is a fact of life, a matter of course, a matter of control. Absent power, nothing is moved, lifted, dropped, ignored, developed, advanced, set back, or stays where it is; nothing happens without power being exercised, not even nothing.
The whole point of locating and examining power is to fix responsibility for the consequences that result from the action or inaction of those possessing it. Thus, understanding power permits us to comprehend how we might more quickly and easily address some of the issues confronting us. Continuing to operate oblivious to the dynamics of power only reinforces the status quo, making it unlikely that improvement will occur.
Solution: Addressing sources of power—muscle, money, mind and spirit—Sánchez isolates four power-centered behaviors critical to solving the accountability problem: 1. Discipline (the ultimate individual power)—the ability to focus, avoid distractions and resist impulses; 2. Duty—the responsibility to know [and act on] the difference between what is and the best that can be; 3. Critical Thinking—the process of making sense of the information around us; and 4. Action—acting out of a sense of urgency, recognizing that “for every dozen [people] with bright ideas there is at most one who can carry them out.”
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Ramón Sánchez has worked in academia, government and private industry, having held leadership positions at Motorola and the U.S. Department of Labor. Sánchez is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Graduate School of Management, and resides in Chicago.
