This updated edition of the award-winning volume is a contemporary guidebook for understanding and using personal power in organizational settings of all kinds.

• Includes 22 demonstrations of effective power tactics for daily use at work, home, or in recreational situations

• Offers 20 descriptive tables summarizing and clarifying survey results

• Two diagrams display models of the power-use process, offering visual confirmation of the interrelationships of critical elements of power use

• Provides a full bibliography for further study of the use of personal power in organizational settings

• An extensive and helpful index offers access to all critical elements of power theory and practice allowing the reader easy reference