Draws on cutting-edge research and the authors' work with Fortune 500 executives, politicians, and Nobel Prize winners to demystify the human process of social evaluation while explaining how to build personal strength and kindness. How do we make character judgments? Kohut and…
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Draws on cutting-edge research and the authors' work with Fortune 500 executives, politicians, and Nobel Prize winners to demystify the human process of social evaluation while explaining how to build personal strength and kindness. How do we make character judgments? Kohut and…
Integrating the growing body of research and theory on the subject, this volume presents a comprehensive model of the charismatic leadership process.
Charismatic leaders have proven to be remarkable change agentsùable to create or reinvent entire organizations. At the same time, these leaders provide us with lessons about the greatest dangers of leadership. For example, throughout history, certain charismatic leaders have dem…
Why do some people seem to lead charmed lives? They are attractive, but also lively, friendly and charismatic. People want to be around them. Doors open for them. The answer, this book shows, is in the power of erotic capital - the overlooked human asset that is at the heart of …
Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital
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This study explores how erotic capital is developed from childhood onwards and how people exploit it, consciously and unconsciously, in everyday social contacts and exchanges. It suggests that erotic capital is as important as qualifications for increasing income, and also studi…
In this bold and controversial book, Hakim explores the applications and significance of erotic capital, challenging the disapproval meted out to women and men who use sex appeal to get ahead in life. Social scientists have paid little serious attention to these modes of persona…
"In 2010, pioneering sociologist Catherine Hakim shocked the world with a provocative new theory: In addition to the three recognized personal assets (economic, cultural, and social capital), each individual has a fourth asset-erotic capital-that he or she can, and should, use t…
