This is an excellent guide to help you understand how people gain power and influence and what they use it for. Pfeffer offers an in-depth analysis of power in organizations and demonstrates how leaders use it to achieve their own goals and manipulate others. He convincingly argues that the phenomenon of power is understandable, and helps to understand how others achieve influence. Using numerous examples from the world of business, politics, science and even religion, the author shows how various figures use power and sometimes abuse it to achieve personal and organizational goals. In the book Power and Influence, the reader will find answers to many questions: what factors underlie personal power and influence, how to properly use and strengthen power and how, finally, not to lose it. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in problems of power and influence.