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Discovering Leadership: Designing Your Success gives a real-world, engaging basis and easy-to-comprehend context for people to design leadership decisively. Power over signifies the way power is most commonly understood. This kind of power is built on domination, force, coercion, and control and is mainly through fear. It denotes that the individual using “power over” is practicing control over another individual by using formal position and authority and the dispensation of punishments and rewards (Middlebrooks et al., 2018). It is commonly related to the transactional leadership approach and built on a belief that power is a finite source that can be held by persons and that some individuals have supremacy and some do not.

Power is a mutual power that develops out of relationships and collaboration. This power is established on solidarity, respect, shared governance, collaborative decision-making, influence, mutual support, and empowerment. It is connected to “social power, the power we exercise among equals and can aid build bridges within groups (Middlebrooks et al., 2018). Instead of control and domination, power results in the ability to act together and collective action.

Leadership signifies power. It is the exercise of power; hence leaders ought to develop the proper bases of administrative authority in order to practice it efficiently and effectively in influencing others. Some of the core elements in leadership include trust, transparency, decisiveness, democracy, creativity, and confidence (Middlebrooks et al., 2018). According to the findings, power is never static. It is not something an individual can hold or store. It is a relationship, a movement, a balance, and changing. The supremacy an individual can exercise over another relies on subtle agreements and a myriad of external factors. The personal goals for each of the core elements include showing more confidence, building stronger connections, making smarter decisions, and being more adaptable to changeReference

Middlebrooks, A., Allen, S. J., McNutt, M. S., & Morrison, J. L. (2018). Discovering leadership: Designing your success. SAGE Publications.