Using Your Honor to Influence Others
If I were asked which book of those books which were published by the Covey Leadership before its merger with the Franklin Quest company was most important towards advanced personal growth and the process of developing Cohesive Integrity, it would be, The Power Principle: Influence With Honor by Blaine Lee.
According to Blaine Lee all of us are constantly wielding Power and be affecting by other people's Power. How we handle Power is a matter of our own personal choice. He devotes Chapter 2 and 3 to those who think that they are Powerless and Chapter 3 explains how to get past that defeatest attitude.
This book suggests that there are four core choices that we each make regarding Power. Those choices are Powerlessness, Coercion, Utility, and Principle. Each of these choices use a specific strategy towards Power. Powerlessness uses Doubt, Coercion uses Fear, Utility uses Fairness and Principle uses Honor. Each of these combinations also produce specific results. Powerlessness and Doubt produce Unresponsive or Irrational behavor and Immobility. Coercion and Fear produce Temporary Reactive Control and Compliance. Utility and Fairness produce Functional Reactive Influence and Co-operation. Principle and Honor produce Sustained Proactive Influence and a Commitment to striving for the best.
Blaine Lee then goes into an in-depth discussion of the Principles on which one may influence with Honor. Those principles are: Persuasion, Patience, Gentleness, Teachability, Acceptance, Kindness, Knowledge, Discipline, Consistency and Integrity. He then discusses how to Increase one's Power using Principle and Honor. This method uses Vision, Risk, Capacity, History and Credibility.
After this, the book begins delving into Niche applications of Principle and Honor. He discusses how Parents, Teachers, Salespeople and Leaders may use Principle and Honor to be powerful.
There are then three more chapters which deal with Life and Living with Principle and Honor. One point that he makes near the end of the book deals with how the average person will react to your power choices. Coercion produces choices based on avoidance. Utility produces choices based on what the other person hopes to obtain from you. Principle and Honor produce choices based on their values and what is most important to them.
I like the style of writing that Blaine Lee uses. His book is very accessible to the reader and he makes it easy for the reader to make immediate applications. This book does not leave you on an esoterical and theoretical plane but rather helps the reader to see how the theory may be made very practical. This was one of the common complaints about the first Seven Habits book that it was written from a very scholarly and theoretical approach which required the reader to make the jump to the practical level. The only exception to this was that most people agreed that the third habit was made very practical. Later books from Stephen Covey have improved immensely in this area so that the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families and The Eighth Habit books are much more accessible than the original book. But The Power Principle does not suffer from inaccessibility.
Another thing that I like about this book is that it is very focused. The writer is not writing about Seven interconnected topics but truly about one topic. While it is true that he uses four chapters to deal with the wrong Power choices, yet these chapters are essential to understanding the main topic of the book, using Your Honor to Influence Others.
honor principle influence power choice
According to Blaine Lee all of us are constantly wielding Power and be affecting by other people's Power. How we handle Power is a matter of our own personal choice. He devotes Chapter 2 and 3 to those who think that they are Powerless and Chapter 3 explains how to get past that defeatest attitude.
This book suggests that there are four core choices that we each make regarding Power. Those choices are Powerlessness, Coercion, Utility, and Principle. Each of these choices use a specific strategy towards Power. Powerlessness uses Doubt, Coercion uses Fear, Utility uses Fairness and Principle uses Honor. Each of these combinations also produce specific results. Powerlessness and Doubt produce Unresponsive or Irrational behavor and Immobility. Coercion and Fear produce Temporary Reactive Control and Compliance. Utility and Fairness produce Functional Reactive Influence and Co-operation. Principle and Honor produce Sustained Proactive Influence and a Commitment to striving for the best.
Blaine Lee then goes into an in-depth discussion of the Principles on which one may influence with Honor. Those principles are: Persuasion, Patience, Gentleness, Teachability, Acceptance, Kindness, Knowledge, Discipline, Consistency and Integrity. He then discusses how to Increase one's Power using Principle and Honor. This method uses Vision, Risk, Capacity, History and Credibility.
After this, the book begins delving into Niche applications of Principle and Honor. He discusses how Parents, Teachers, Salespeople and Leaders may use Principle and Honor to be powerful.
There are then three more chapters which deal with Life and Living with Principle and Honor. One point that he makes near the end of the book deals with how the average person will react to your power choices. Coercion produces choices based on avoidance. Utility produces choices based on what the other person hopes to obtain from you. Principle and Honor produce choices based on their values and what is most important to them.
I like the style of writing that Blaine Lee uses. His book is very accessible to the reader and he makes it easy for the reader to make immediate applications. This book does not leave you on an esoterical and theoretical plane but rather helps the reader to see how the theory may be made very practical. This was one of the common complaints about the first Seven Habits book that it was written from a very scholarly and theoretical approach which required the reader to make the jump to the practical level. The only exception to this was that most people agreed that the third habit was made very practical. Later books from Stephen Covey have improved immensely in this area so that the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families and The Eighth Habit books are much more accessible than the original book. But The Power Principle does not suffer from inaccessibility.
Another thing that I like about this book is that it is very focused. The writer is not writing about Seven interconnected topics but truly about one topic. While it is true that he uses four chapters to deal with the wrong Power choices, yet these chapters are essential to understanding the main topic of the book, using Your Honor to Influence Others.
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