Book Summary Preview : The Power Principle

The Big Idea
Dr. Blaine Lee outlines useful methods to overcome powerlessness, emphasizing that in our business or personal lives, we are always faced with a Choice. This is a book for people who need to understand the greatest power is that which comes through integrity, how principle-centered power, or the way you live your life, is the way to getting the kind of power, respect, and honor that outlasts a lifetime.

The Answer is in You
The key to power is honor. When others honor you, you will have sustained, long-term influence with them. This is the Power Principle.

Nine Positive Premises

1. You already understand much about power because you have experienced its many forms as others have influenced you.
2. Power and influence can be acquired and developed.
3. You choose to be powerless or powerful every day.
4. Powerlessness and each of the three paths to power have different foundations.
5. Depending on the situation, you may attempt to influence others with honor, with fairness, with fear, or you may sometimes doubt your ability to influence at all.
6. The results you get with each approach are absolutely predictable.
7. Whatever your official title or position, ultimately your ability to influence others is a result of what you are, as well as what you do.
8. You can change.
9. You can make a difference, for good, and the world needs what you can do.

When we follow principle-based living, it makes for more effective practices.

Chapter 1. Power and Influence

People have an innate sense of who is powerful in any situation.

There are three paths to power:
1. Influencing people through Fear, or Coercive power
2. Making deals or exchanges in Fairness, or Utility power
3. People follow us because they give us respect and Honor, or Principle-centered power

The ability to exercise integrity in the moment of choice, or making decisions based on what is right, is the essence of Principle-centered power. . . . . .

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