Saturday, October 18, 2008

Week 8-4 With Power Comes Responisbility

I guess most of us know where we heard "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility". This is one of the statements that I really like. Any kind of power if properly used will help any organization. For example, In some countries where corruption is a big issue people with power use it to exploit people and make money. In those situations they are not responsible with the power they have and are misusing it. Also, people with power should try to analyze how they need to communicate and Box 9.1 on page 247 gives very nice explanation of this. In some situations persuasion might be better and in some others you might need to be authoritative

2 comments:

violet said...

" With great power comes great responsibility" i like this sentence as well and it says a lot. To take the example of this movie now spiderman could misuse his power and make money for himself and obtain all the worldly pleasure, gain fame but instead he understood the responsibility of his power and did what was right even though he did not gain anything from it except for the satisfaction of what is right. I think this is an excellent example to explain even to a child about the meaning of responsibility of power.

Anonymous said...

That’s the same thing that popped into my mind as well – Spiderman. It’s true, the more power that a person has, the more responsibility is necessary to appropriately use that power. CEO’s of corporations have tons of power and they must make a choice. They can either be responsible and use their power appropriately with the shareholders’ best interests in mind, or they can act irresponsibly. Everyone knows the ramifications of CEO’s who misuse their power because they make the headlines in newspapers and on television, such as the famous Enron example. I believe that most executives use their power appropriately, but there are always a few bad apples.