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six bases of power  

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  • Though there have been many formal definitions of leadership that did not include social influence and power, any discussion of leadership must inevitably deal with the means by which a leader gets the members of a group or organization to act and move in a particular direction. One of the most widely cited analyses of social power is that proposed by John R. P. French and Bertram H. Raven in 1959. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Power, Six Bases of]

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