权力的悖论 – The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence by Dacher Keltner

迈克尔·刘易斯、丹尼尔·戈尔曼等倾力推荐；美国社会心理学顶级学者20多年研究成果；“20条权力准则”帮助你定义自己的社会地位和权力等级；想要了解如何在集体中获得权力并得到尊重，本书必读！

权力存在于人类社会生活的方方面，你我之间的每一次交流、每一次互动无不流淌着权力塑造的痕迹。对于权力的追寻是人类成功统治世界的本能使然。我们根据自身的优点，包括建立社会网络，关注他人需求，理解、奉献并感激他人的付出，而获得集体赋予我们的权力；但同时当我们大权在握时，又会因为权力膨胀带来的强大物质和精神满足而激发出人类内心贪婪、自私的一面，导致权力的滥用，最终被迫从权力顶峰跌落甚至名声扫地。这就是“权力的悖论”，它影响着人类社会生活的每一处细节。

美国心理学会奖项得主达契尔·克特纳研究“权力的悖论”问题长达数十年。在他曾经经历过的数千次社会实验研究中，无不反映了权力对于人类生活的关键影响，它塑造了我们的个性情绪、身份认知、家庭生活、社会地位甚至身体健康状况。通过克特纳呈现的数十个有趣的心理学实验，你可以理解不同领域、不同场合中权力存在和分配的方式，还可以体会到拥有不同层级权力的人的不同情绪及行事准则，他们的权力是怎样在日常生活中包括谈判、逗笑、闲聊的过程里展示出来的，以及这些权力是如何影响整个社会的运作。

无论你是研究社会心理学的专家，还是对权力、地位问题感兴趣的职场人士，亦或是对团队权力的分配和衡量十分关注的管理者，甚至是关心孩子的成长环境及集体中地位所属的家长，通过克特纳总结的“20个权力原则”，你都能找到令自己满意的答案。

A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world.

It is taken for granted that power corrupts. This is reinforced culturally by everything from Machiavelli to contemporary politics. But how do we get power? And how does it change our behavior? So often, in spite of our best intentions, we lose our hard-won power. Enduring power comes from empathy and giving. Above all, power is given to us by other people. This is what all-too-often we forget, and what Dr. Keltner sets straight. This is the crux of the power paradox: by fundamentally misunderstanding the behaviors that helped us to gain power in the first place we set ourselves up to fall from power. We can’t retain power because we’ve never understood it correctly, until now. Power isn’t the capacity to act in cruel and uncaring ways; it is the ability to do good for others, expressed in daily life, and itself a good a thing.

Dr. Keltner lays out exactly–in twenty original “Power Principles”– how to retain power, why power can be a demonstrably good thing, and the terrible consequences of letting those around us languish in powerlessness.

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