Name: 力のさまざまな形。クラッシュコースビジネス - ソフトスキル #16 (The Many Forms of Power: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills #16)
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We understand the world through the stories we tell about it.

And power seems to always be on our minds.

Of course there's, “with great power comes great responsibility” from Spider-Man, while

the book Animal Farm has “absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

And Game of Thrones is just a bunch of power struggles -- with dragons!

When we talk about power, sometimes we use phrases like 'those who have power' and

But you don't need to be a king, queen, or leading a farm rebellion to have power,

because everyone has it in some form or another.

So today, we'll be helping you understand the multiple types of power, how to speak

more specifically about it, and how to gain power.

And this is Crash Course Business: Soft Skills.

Power is the ability to direct or influence other people or a series of events.

It's important in business, and life in general.

We need power to persuade others, make a change in workplace procedures, or even help us avoid

And with everything that happens in this world and in life, it can sometimes feel like you

It doesn't just belong to 'head honchos' like political leaders or CEOs.

And it's never as simple as someone 'being powerful' in a vague, general sense.

Being in a relationship or a close friendship shows us that a little dependence can be nice.

It's good to have a shoulder to cry on or someone to go see a new movie with if we don't

Adding or taking away dependency changes the balance.

If the balance is super unfavorable, we might not be able to assert our needs, and someone

At work, overdependence makes it more likely that we have to deal with unfair demands.

It could even make us feel stuck in a toxic workplace, being overworked or treated poorly.

We become dependent on others because of three factors: criticality, substitutability, and

Criticality is how much a resource, like salary, matters to you.

To check for criticality, ask yourself, “how badly do I need this?”

If you're trying to pay back loans without a lot of money saved up, or if your work is

super important to you, your job would be pretty critical.

So to lessen a job's criticality, you have to limit how much you need what your employer's

offering, or increase how much they rely on you.

Like, if you want more power relative to your company, you can do work they can't live

without, like learning how to use a specific coding language.

Or you can explore hobbies outside of work, to build a better sense of identity that isn't

For example, when I worked at an ad agency, I decided to start a YouTube channel.

Substitutability is whether you have other options.

To check for it, ask yourself, “can I get this elsewhere?”

Maybe you've found that making friends at work is important to your social life.

So you can check how substitutable the job is by trying to make friends outside of work

Or if you're thinking of quitting your job, it might not feel substitutable because you're

afraid that you won't find other meaningful work.

So you can decrease your dependence and increase your job options by networking, updating your

resume, and scanning openings every so often to see what's out there.

Centrality is how you and other people may be impacted by not having a resource.

So that's the question you have to ask: “if this stops, how much and how quickly

If you're only spending money on food and housing for yourself, and you've got a year

of savings, then that salary has less centrality than if you were providing for a family.

There are different ways to dial down your dependance through centrality.

If you build up 2-6 months of savings, you can give yourself some extra time to look

around for a job before you quit your old one.

Or if you don't quit until you have another job offer secured, you won't be affected

Balancing centrality, substitutability, and criticality isn't easy to do.

But as long as you stick to your priorities and think about what's valuable to you,

Together, these factors can help shift that dependency teeter-totter in your favor, so

And groups of employees are usually able to build more power than individuals.

You know, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.

That's what makes banding together to take collective action so important, either informally

A union is a group that employees join to help make sure a company respects their rights.

Unions do things like advocate for employees during bankruptcies, or hold strikes if members

They were extremely important during the 1950s, and sometimes they can be controversial today.

But around 10% of the U.S. workforce is unionized.

To see how acting as a group can increase your employer's dependency on you and minimize

your dependency on them, let's go to the Thought Bubble.

You're working at a video game development company, which was pretty exciting when you

You've got great dental insurance and there's free coffee and snacks in the breakroom.

You're working 80-100 hour weeks so the company can have their latest RPG ready by

mid-Fall, in time for the Christmas rush.

But you don't have paid overtime, and you've seen the company's profit statements.

You know you deserve more, and you know they can afford it.

Your work is important, but there are hundreds of applicants for positions like yours.

So by yourself, you're pretty substitutable from their perspective.

That's why it's good you're a part of a union.

When you bring this problem to the leader's attention at the next union meeting, you all

To prove the company can't function without you, together you decide to walk-out.

Everyone won't work until your demands are met.

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