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The Power Book
The Power Book

The Power Book

200 Ways to Make Power Work for You

SELF-HELP

232 Pages, 5 x 8

Formats: Cloth, EPUB

Cloth, $19.95 (US $19.95) (CA $23.95)

Publication Date: April 2014

ISBN 9781743316016

Rights: US, CA, CN, KR & TW

Allen & Unwin (Apr 2014)

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Overview

From power in relationships to power in families to power in society to power in the workplace, how to be a more powerful person while keeping one's humanity and decencyPower can be benevolent, and it can be gentle. You can still get exactly what you want without resorting to backstabbing moves. This book discusses how you can have powerâ€â€Âthe good kindâ€â€Âwithout having to betray yourself or others. The 200 power plays offered here include such important lessons as "Always write it down," "Ask for help and ask early," "Know there's no normal," and "Play fair, especially when you have the winning cards." This book is meant to be dipped into as inspiration, as needed, for new ways of to gain social currency.

Reviews

"A great work for browsing or reading daily for inspiration. The reader can't go wrong following any of Herceg's advice." â€â€ÂLibrary Journal

Author Biography

Rose Herceg is an entrepreneur, strategist, and author. She cofounded Pophouse, specializing in social forecasting, market research, and business strategy, in 1998 before selling it in 2006. Until recently Rose was strategy director of the STW Group, Australasia's largest communications group, working across 70 companies on strategy, social forecasting, trends analysis, and innovation. She is the author of two books, The Seven Myths and Seven Realities of Generation X and Ideas Generation and she currently writes for Crikey.com's Power Index website.