TMSC International World Management & Leadership: Types of Power of Planet Earth

Tres Mali Scott with TMSC Consulting SVCS, LLC Management & Leadership

This title is endorsed by TMSC Consulting SVCS, LLC Management & Leadership Division by Tres Mali Scott, Management Theorist, Member of Who’s Who of Professionals in Management since 2000.

There are two types of power, hard power and soft power.

Hard Power is considered:

• Threat,
• armed forces,
• economic pressure or sanctions,
• assassinations and
• other forms of intimidation

Soft Power is defined by Joseph Nye and includes:

• Debates on cultural values,
• dialogues on ideology,
• the attempt to influence through good example and
• appeal of commonly accepted human values.

A Power’s type of force or influence can be:

1. Global Power,
2. Major Power  or 
3. Middle Power.

Charles W. Freeman, Jr. states that power is a capacity to direct the decisions & actions of others. The names of the powers that are defined by capacity are:

1. Super Power-Great Power+Mobility of Power,
2. Great Power-Strong political, cultural, & economic influence,
3. Regional Power-exercise influence within Region, and
4. Middle Power-second tier influence.