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The Power Workbook

Your Relationship to Authority — Above You, Beside You, Below You

You have three relationships with power. None of them were chosen.

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For the professional who has noticed that their response to authority — from bosses, peers, and direct reports — runs on a pattern they did not choose and has never examined.

You'll produce:your Your Power Agreement

The Name It First Experience

Your relationship to power is not one thing — it is three. How you respond to authority above you, how you compete with peers beside you, and how you exercise authority over people below you. Your Power Agreement maps all three patterns, names the beliefs driving them, and documents the specific commitments you are making about how you hold and respond to power from here.

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Sample questions

  1. What is your actual relationship to power — how you wield it, how you respond to it, and what it reveals about you?
  2. Where does authority make you uncomfortable — whether you hold it or someone else does?
  3. What would change professionally if you understood your power pattern clearly?

Research basis

Heifetz and Linsky on adaptive leadership and authority instincts / Pfeffer on power in organizations / Bowen on family systems and authority relationships / Crenshaw on intersectionality and power / Colquitt on organizational justice

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