The dangers of formal power

The psychology of the less-than-empathetic target-chaser.

I've never been the biggest fan of formal power.

To my mind, there are two types of people that end up telling you what to do at most jobs. One group is managers. That's organizationally-vetted formal power. Via research, most managers are not actually good at their jobs. Almost every manager I've ever had was terrible. For more on this, check out this a…