Power and Influence

One of our topics in class this past week was power and influence. This was a fun topic and important topic to learn about. Power and influence can effect our future careers in health care in many ways. We've learned that in order to move forward in our careers we must influence others by showing our skills and working hard. Power and influence is important and it was interesting to learn about from a health management perspective. 

In addition to HMP 722, one of the other courses that I am taking is Health Economics. When we were learning about power and influence I thought back to my experience in Health Econ and how we also talked about this topic in that class. We talked about it in the sense of monopolies in the market. We learned about how different organizations can not gain too much power so that they dominate the market. Power can be a good thing, but too much of it can turn into a bad thing. This is true across many disciplines. 

I looked into power and influence a bit more after thinking about it from the Health Econ side of things. Although not related directly to healthcare I found an interesting article to read on the topic of power and influence. Recently Amazon has come under fire for becoming too powerful and having too much influence over the economy. Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon has now become the richest man in the world and the company has gotten so big that people think that it is now affecting retail stores. This is an interesting read and I have linked the article below. It made me wonder, how much power is too much power?

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/1/bernie-sanders-says-amazon-power-and-influence-us-/