Power - by Julie Diamond (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Unlock Your Potential: A User's Guide to Navigating Power Dynamics

Are you ready to harness the power within and lead with authenticity and integrity? Power: A User's Guide provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and navigating the complexities of power in all aspects of life. From the workplace to personal relationships, this insightful guide equips you with the tools to develop self-awareness, build ethical leadership skills, and create positive change.

Discover your unique "Powerprint" and learn how to:

• Cultivate self-awareness to avoid the pitfalls of power misuse
• Master your emotions and build resilience in the face of challenges
• Influence others with integrity and inspire positive change
• Create healthy power cultures in your organizations and communities

For leaders, managers, educators, therapists, and anyone seeking to use power responsibly, this is your essential guide to becoming a force for good. Julie Diamond, Ph.D., is an executive coach and leadership consultant with over 30 years of experience helping individuals and organizations thrive.

Review Quotes

"Power: A User's Guide is a tremendously practical guide on how to navigate organizational life via deeper self-awareness and active management of ourselves and those around us. Get ready to get better." --Sydney Finkelstein, author, Why Smart Executives Fail

"Power: A User's Guide is enormously helpful both to those in positions of power and those who wish to be. Full of enlightening examples, Julie Diamond's book will inform you and inspire you to demonstrate your strengths in a positive, authentic way." --Marshall Goldsmith, author, What Got You Here Won't Get You There

"Reading Power: A User's Guide is like engaging in multiple coaching sessions with a wise and trusted therapist--for the price of a book and your time. It is a deal well worth the cost." --Pat McLagan, author, The Shadow Side of Power

"This is a manual for anyone and everyone, not just those in leadership positions, where the mindful exercise of power is a daily challenge . . . As a leader of an environmental organization, where campaigning for positive change is most often about empowering others or seizing opportunities to shift power dynamics, this is a book that all activists should read." --Bunny McDiarmid, Executive Director, Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand

About the Author

Julie Diamond, Ph.D. is a leadership coach and consultant who has spent 30 years working around the world in the field of human and organizational change. She is a founder of the Process Work Institute and the cofounder of the Power2 Leaderlab. She lives in Portland, Oregon.