{"id":52,"date":"2020-07-07T08:58:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T08:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/heidibrooks\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2020-07-21T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T07:24:09","slug":"power-politics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/heidibrooks\/power-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Power &amp; Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span class=\"textLayer--absolute\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spinup-000d1a-wp-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/faculty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/07\/PowerPolitics_Sample_Syllabus.pdf\">MGT417 Power &amp; Politics Sample Syllabus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">\u201cThe fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">concept in physics.\u201d \u2013\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">Bertrand Russell (1938)<\/span><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">\u201cNearly all [people] can stand adversity; if you want to test [their] character, give them power.\u201d \u2013\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">Organizations are fundamentally political entities, and power and influence are keys to getting things done.\u00a0This course is designed to help students build sk<\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">ills for ethically using power in ways that are consistent with the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">global mission of Yale SOM<\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">\u2014to facilitate development as a leader of both business and society in ways big and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">global, as well as small and local.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-105 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spinup-000d1a-wp-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/faculty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/07\/Power_pic1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinup-000d1a-wp-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/faculty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/07\/Power_pic1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinup-000d1a-wp-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/faculty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2020\/07\/Power_pic1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">Throughout the<\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">\u00a0course, students wil<\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">l engage in lectures, case discussions, simulations and experiential\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">learning activities to foster the awareness and skills to use power ethically and effectively. All of the techniques\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">and teaching activities used in the course will be backed by empiric<\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">al research developed in the social and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">behavioral sciences. This course is designed in two parts that broadly encompass the primary aspects of successful\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\">uses of power and effective leadership. The course is framed around answering two basic questions:<br \/>\n1) What kind of leader do I want to be?<br \/>\n2) How can I use power ethically and effectively?<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]MGT417 Power &amp; Politics Sample Syllabus \u201cThe fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental\u00a0concept in physics.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Bertrand Russell (1938)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]\u201cNearly all [people] can stand adversity; if you want to test [their] character, give them power.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Abraham Lincoln Organizations are fundamentally political entities, and power and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-52","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/heidibrooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/heidibrooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/heidibrooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/heidibrooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/heidibrooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/heidibrooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/heidibrooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/heidibrooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}