Positive and Negative Power: Thoughts on the Dialectics of Power
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1980
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Journal Article
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*Positivism--Positivist--Positivistic- (340490); *Power- (341000); *Negative--Negativity- (291315); *Dialectic--Dialectics--Dialectical- (132040)
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No discipline assigned
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English
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103-362-251
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2002/02/27 18:44:47 US/Mountain)
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Positive power (induction), as an ability to initiate activity, & negative power (resistance), as an ability to stop some activity, can be perceived as two closely related poles of the same power cycle. Existing theoretical treatments of power phenomena have been reduced to an analysis of positive power & consequently have been unable to treat the contradictory interdependency of positive & negative power. Leadership as a power-implementing practice cannot avoid resistance. However, successful leadership can provoke greater induction than resistance. Attempts to avoid resistance completely would provoke secondary effects that would lead toward the deterioration of powerless as well as powerful entities. Authority is considered a specific state of equilibrium between conditionally tolerated positive power & conditionally tolerated negative power. Authority can, therefore, be viewed as a unity of contradictions. HA
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