Friday, May 12, 2023: Twice a week we bring you informational, educational, inspirational, and entertaining messages. This edition showcases the following topic:

• Friday Inspiration and Fun. A Vocabulary of Influence, Social Power, and Leadership. The concept of power in general proves very useful in a variety of contexts, including physics, where power can be defined as “the ability to do work” and is measured by the amount of energy needed to move a given mass a given distance in a given time. The power of an automobile (originally called a “horseless carriage”), for example, is measured in “horsepower,” which is presumably the amount of mass an average horse can move a certain distance in a certain time. Social power refers to the capacity of one individual or group of people to move another individual or group a given distance in a given direction against resistance. In the case of social power, the notion of “distance” is more often psychological or emotional than physical. Find out more at
• https://ourbetterangels.org/a-vocabulary-of-influence-social-power-and-leadership
• Coming Up on Tuesday – Information and Education.

• All of our previous articles are available at the Better Angels Leaders' Digest On-line Archive

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• Ripon College https://ripon.edu
• Kiwanis International https://www.kiwanis.org
• Circle K International https://www.circlek.org
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• Rotary International https://www.rotary.org
• The League of Women Voters https://www.lwv.org
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• US Chamber of Commerce https://www.uschamber.com
• US Main Street Programs https://www.mainstreet.org

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