Max Weber defined power as the chance to carry out your own will even against resistance — and noted that naked force is exhausting to maintain. Authority is the cheaper thing: power that people accept as rightful. Weber found only three ways a claim to rule gets accepted. Tap each one.
Where obedience comes from
Power & authoritytap a type of authority to begin
Weber's three types — tap one (or tap the diagram)
How this type behaves
Read this type through a paradigm
Power vs. authority. Weber: power is the ability to impose your will despite resistance — a mugger has it. Authority is power that the governed regard as legitimate, so it is obeyed without being enforced. All three faces below are kinds of authority; force alone is not one of them.
Weber's puzzle: charisma cannot outlive its leader