LEADER 04624nam 22004695 450 001 9911015854303321 005 20250712130220.0 010 $a9783031906824$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031906817 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-90682-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32207842 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32207842 035 $a(CKB)39633597300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-90682-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9939633597300041 100 $a20250712d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Power Trap $eHow Leadership Changes People, and What to Do About It /$fby Nik Kinley 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (218 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Kinley, Nik The Power Trap Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2025 9783031906817 327 $a1. The Two Great Lies of Power -- 2. Brain Cells, Hormones & What I Learnt in Prison -- 3. How Power Impels Us -- 4. How Power Focuses & Simplifies Our Judgement -- 5. How Power Insulates & Isolates Us -- 6. Greg Wallace's Video -- 7. How Power Reveals & Amplifies Us -- 8. Reverberations -- 9. How Power Sensitises & Triggers Us -- 10. Seven Responses to Threat -- 11. Why it's Getting Worse -- 12. We Need to Talk About Donald -- 13. How Powerholders Can Protect Themselves -- 14. Selecting People for Power -- 15. What Organisations Need to Do -- 16. Power and the Politician. 330 $a?As we witness leaders on the world?s stage struggle with assuming and practising power, this important book reveals how power changes everyone who has some, affecting our ability to lead and the impact we have. Bringing his extensive decades-long expertise as a psychotherapist, leader, researcher, and assessor of top executives all over the world, Nik shines a light on what power can do to people and what we all need to do to ensure we use it not just for the benefit of our own career success, but also the benefit and well-being of the organisations and people we lead, and the societies of which we are part.? ?Dr. Shlomo Ben-Hur, Professor of Leadership & Organizational Behavior, IMD Business School, Switzerland We have an entirely messed-up relationship with power. It is something that almost everyone wants, that promises much and can help us achieve great things. Yet power isn't something we openly talk about or understand, and that?s a problem. While power is an essential part of every leadership role, it is also a difficult and sometimes toxic partner that changes everyone who holds it. And often, in ways that make being a good leader much harder. Approached carefully, however, the worst of power's negative effects can be avoided and balanced by its positives. This book shows you how. It reveals what power does to people, and how it both affects them as leaders and the people they lead. And it shows how, in turn, leaders can affect the positions of power they hold, too. Incorporating the latest neuroscience, the book offers clear lessons for how to successfully manage power. For leaders, it provides practical advice on how to survive having power, avoiding its worst effects. For organisations and institutions, it is about how to ensure that the people who have power are equipped and supported to thrive with it. And for us all, as people who choose and follow leaders, it is about how we can identify those most at risk of falling to power's dark side. Ultimately, this book provides a plan for how we can have a healthier relationship with power, so that as individuals we can be better leaders, and as organisations and societies we can be better led. Nik Kinley is a London-based leadership expert with over 35 years' experience assessing and developing leaders. His varied background includes commercial roles, senior corporate HR positions, and consulting roles, as well as over a decade working in prisons as a forensic psychotherapist. He thus has the unique experience of having worked with royalty, CEOs, murderers, politicians, and children. 606 $aStrategic planning 606 $aLeadership 606 $aBusiness Strategy and Leadership 615 0$aStrategic planning. 615 0$aLeadership. 615 14$aBusiness Strategy and Leadership. 676 $a658.4092 700 $aKinley$b Nik$0966466 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9911015854303321 996 $aThe Power Trap$94409140 997 $aUNINA