'Inside Influence occupies a valuable and underserved niche: more rigorous, evidence-based books on leadership that are more readable than academic monographs and more constructive than books that mainly focus on power's corrupting effects. Schermuly has produced a psychologically serious, historically grounded, and practically useful guide to understanding power - what it does to those who hold it, and what individuals and institutions can do about it. It is a timely contribution in an era when the dynamics of power deserve far more careful attention than they typically receive'. - Professor Dr. Eric Kearney, Chair of Business Administration, University of Potsdam in Germany, Germany. 'An engaging, readable exploration of power's psychological and structural mechanisms. Schermuly moves seamlessly from individual motives to organisational interventions, offering a research-backed guide for understanding our own need for power and learning to exercise it responsibly, ethically, and effectively'. - Professor Mary Zellmer-Bruhn, Associate Dean and David M.
Bond Fellowship for Ethics and Corporate Behavior, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA. 'Power is the elephant organisations never talk about - and Carsten Schermuly unpacks it with the psychological rigour and dry wit it deserves. A rare combination: serious science, genuinely readable'. - Dr. Antoinette Weibel, Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. 'Dr. Schermuly takes us on an instructive tour of the types of power over our fellow humans.
Along with insight into the psychology of power and the nature of organisational power structures, most importantly, he describes the necessity of empowerment for all people'. - Joel A. DiGirolamo, Vice President of Research and Data Science, International Coaching Federation, USA. 'No researcher I know has more to say about psychology and power than Carsten Schermuly, and certainly no one writes about it in prose that is as engaging and accessible as it is insightful. I loved this book for the way it made me think and the way it made me hope'. - John Stepper, Founder, Working Out Loud, USA. 'This book is both timeless and timely: given current political and societal developments across the world, a broader audience should understand the psychological mechanisms of power and their scientific foundation. Carsten Schermuly provides a much-needed synthesis of existing research on the concept of power, combining it with his own scientific (and practical) work and insights, notably on empowering leadership'.
- Professor Dr. Frauke Austermann, Future of Work & Workforce Transformation, Hochschule Niederrhein University of Applied Science, Germany.