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Definitions of power.
POWER is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter. (By Carolyn Heilbrun)
POWER is the opportunity to build, to create, to nudge history in a different direction. (By President Richard Nixon)
POWER is action that employs means in order to achieve outcomes. (By Rosabeth Moss Kantor)
POWER is control of someone or something, as dominance, as the ascendance of one's self-will. (By Phyllis Kritek)
POWER is simply the capacity to bring about certain intended consequences in the behavior of others. (By John Gardner)
POWER: the ability to do or act; political or national strength; the possession of control or command over others; legal ability, capacity or authority; a military or naval force; energy, force or momentum. (From Webster's Dictionary)
Knowing Your Political Style
- The "disappearance" of the Abenaki in western Maine: political organization and...
- Magazine article from: The American Indian Quarterly Ghere, David L. March 22, 1993 700+ words
...assumptions. Our understanding ofabenaki political organization has gone through an important transformation...useful understanding of Abenaki political organization and migration patterns and accounts...English confusion over Abenaki political organization is particularly apparent ...
- CREW Files Ethics Complaint Against Rep. Eric Cantor for Creating...
- Newspaper article from: Politics & Government Business August 6, 2009 700+ words
...Because NCNA appears to be a political organization, CREW has asked OCE to determine...political terms so it must be a political organization." Sloan continued, "The real...Congressional, Government, Political Organization, Political Terms, Politics...
- Potlatching and political organization among the Northwest Coast Indians.
- Magazine article from: Ethnology Tollefson, Kenneth D. January 1, 1995 700+ words
...study seeks to apply the conflict-management model of political organization to the institution of potlatching along with the concepts...the last few decades, the decision-making model for political organization has become one of the standard methods of analysis within...
- Alternatives to Athens: Varieties of Political Organization and Community in...
- Magazine article from: The Historian Mackil, Emily March 22, 2003 700+ words
Alternatives to Athens" Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece. Edited by Roger...each one highlighting complexity and variation in political organization. Challenges to democracy and its social implications...
- He's on the trail and traveling light; Tim Pawlenty's political organization is...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Diaz, Kevin August 10, 2009 700+ words
...Hyatt, they would constitute the extent of the Pawlenty political organization on the ground. As he develops a political presence...need to pick up his game with a crack, bona-fide political organization capable of raising big money, organizing events and...
- A Corporate Politics Primer: Nine Signs That You Have an Overly Political...
- Training Media Review Sujansky, Joanne G. May 1, 2007 700+ words
...Politics Primer: Nine Signs That You Have an Overly Political Organization Well, the Democrats have taken over the House and Senate...that you may have the antithesis of that: an overly political organization. Here is a list of symptoms to look for, along with...
- Shanghai. June 15. INTERFAX-CHINA-Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister...
- Newspaper article from: China Business News June 15, 2006 700+ words
...prototype of some future military and political organization where the military component will...prototype of some future military and political organization where the military component will...said. "SCO is not a military-political organization and has no intention of becoming...
- POLITICAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN'S EDUCATION, REPRESENTATION SCHOLARSHIPS...
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News November 16, 2009 700+ words
...students to apply for a scholarship program organized by Indiana's female legislators. The General Assembly's Political Organization for Women's Education and Representation (POWER) has created a scholarship fund specifically for women...
