#Individuals Trivia no.71
Power and Leadership
Supplementary Resources
If you would like to explore further, the following supplementary resources relevant to the content covered in Module 3 are provided here for your interest.
While not a compulsory course requirement, you are invited to access these supplementary resources.
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Readings:
In this article, 'How to "Lean In" to Power', Stanford University Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer explores the positive use of power in the workplace through influencing:
Link to article: Insights by Stanford Business
This paper, 'Psychopathic Traits of Corporate Leadership as Predictors of Future Stock Returns', by Tomasz Piotr Wisniewski, Liafisu Sina Yekini, and Ayman M.A. Omar, links psychopathic leader traits to stock performance, illustrating the wider implications of toxic leadership:
Link to paper: SSRN
One of the earliest classics on power: Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince (1532):
Link to ebook: Project Gutenberg
This case study on corporate psychopathy, 'Psychopathic Leadership A Case Study of a Corporate Psychopath CEO', by Clive R. Boddy, covers a fascinating aspect of the dark side of leadership literature:
Link to paper: SpringerLink
Podcast:
Dr. Marie Mitchell, an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, is interviewed in this podcast about a study she and a colleague Maureen Ambrose, Professor of Business Ethics in the College of Business at the University of Central Florida, conducted, examining the effects of abusive supervision on workplace deviance:
Link to Podcast: Podcast
Websites:
On this website is a review of the Stanford Prison Experiment forty years later:
Link to website: Stanford Libraries
On this website is a virtual reprise of the Stanley Milgram obedience experiments:
Link to website: UCL Discovery
Video:
In this TED Talk, US activist Eric Liu discusses ‘power literacy’ and how understanding power better can lead to better community outcomes:
Link to video: TED Talk
Suggested Movies (trailers only):
Set in a dystopian version of post-war Britain, this movie tells the story of the protagonists’ fight against a powerful and evil political status quo:
V for Vendetta 2006 (Director: James McTeigue; Warner Bros)
Link to Movie Trailer: V for Vendetta
In the recent independent documentary "Shock Room", the filmmakers revisit the classic Obedience studies by Stanley Milgram to ask the more nuanced question about when and why people resist authority, while also challenging viewers to consider what they would do:
Shock Room (2015) - Kathryn Millard (Writer/Director) - Charlie Productions
Link to trailer: Shock Room
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