Power structures. The fair advantage
summary
Claim: org charts lie and influence comes from formal vs informal power plus role relationships and expertise. Tools: map people-structure-task-technology interactions, use autonomy mastery purpose to surface motives, and Adam Grant’s giver/taker framing to pick relationship strategies. Concrete tactics: identify who can sway the boss, ask about that person’s goals, frame fixes as solutions (business or security) not problems, build reciprocal networks or adopt an expert label to gain de facto authority. Ethical micropolitics works.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:14Story
- 2:23What is power
- 4:50Power structures
- 6:50How to convince someone
- 14:15My story
- 15:59My answers
- 19:33My favorite book
- 28:28Feedback
- 30:18Framing the problem
- 31:40Survivorship bias
- 32:44Mental sanity
- 34:23Presenting a solution
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