Three crows jockeyed for the highest perch in an oak tree outside my window ... for the better part of the afternoon. Two screamed at a contender who positioned for power on higher limbs, and the three screamed relentlessly to stake its claim on the top branch. Does that jockeying fit anybody where you work?
Interestingly, on my drive home a Rotary breakfast meeting, I heard NPR’s Morning Edition announcer speak of the power of power to alter moods. You’d likely be interested to listen to new research about power’s ability to make people drunk.
NPR said it this way…”Various new studies indicate the phrase "drunk with power" is accurate. Social scientists at Stanford and U.C. Berkeley show power can act like alcohol to lower inhibitions. We're not sure if it was power or alcohol that caused Mel Gibson to insist he "owned
Have you noticed power’s ability to anger crows and inebriate people?
Coincidentally, I dropped into Starbucks for a latte and I New York Times, only to read a another “power story.” Pankaja Mishra’s article titled … “Gaining Power, Losing Values,” claimed that “
Was this a coincidence that within one morning two very different sources pointed to power’s effect in the brain and in people’s lives? What do you think?
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