How High-Powered Women Redefine Power

 Power is:

• The ability to inspire others to be their most authentic selves
• Using your influence to make positive change happen
• The ability to bring others on board with your ideas and vision
• The opportunity to “choose” where we work, how we live, who we are
• The ability to speak our truth
• Being fully alive and engaged, loving what we do, the people we do it with
• Leveraging our strengths and gifts
• Truly knowing who we are authentically as human beings
• Proving the cynics and critics wrong and also admitting when you’re wrong and need help
• Courage to be vulnerable and to be strong
• Help others recognize and use their gifts
• Trust in yourself
• Fulfilling the responsibilities that come when you’re powerful
• The ability to empower others
• The opportunity to create your own reality and choose your response to challenges
• The ability to choose what will define you (what others say about you or who you choose to be)

What struck me about this list is that it is largely focused on “personal power” rather than “positional” or hierarchy power.

Read more in Forbes. (Thanks, +Alessia Bhargava)