In 1959, social psychologists John French and Bertram Raven studied power, classifying five kinds: legitimate, reward, coercive, expert and referent. These power bases still figure prominently in ...

In my last blog post, I explained the difference between power and influence as they’re classically defined in business and organizational psychology, and I made the case that even though the words ...

Organizations are made up of individuals that exercise greater or lesser degrees of power. Sometimes, authority stems from a person's title in the organization, or from specialized knowledge and ...

Ambitious employees and aspiring leaders often ask me “How do I develop power?” and “Where does power come from?” Back in the late 1950s, psychologists John R. P. French and Bertram Raven identified ...