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 ...

An increasingly influential group of conservative scholars has some drastic ideas about the president’s power. Credit...Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomas Supported by By Mattathias Schwartz ...

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 ...