In an age of collaboration, does personal power still matter? Well yes, albeit perhaps it is more about how you use your power for ther greater good than for personal gratification. Power can be used for good (Mother Theresa) or evil (Hitler) – there’s nothing wrong with power per se.

This whole arena of power, how to acquire and use it effectively, is a key interest of mine, so here’s a rarity – a link to someone else’s blog!

Jeffrey Pfeffer has written such a useful piece of advice about building your organisational power base that I wanted to share it with you. So here you go to Power Rules