Whether someone has children or not, I think almost all of us can relate to the near universal frustration that comes when someone else isn’t behaving the way we want them to behave. My kids in a restaurant, my teammates in a project meeting, my neighbors and their ridiculously loud music or free-ranging and poop-dropping dog. We have expectations of others, those expectations aren’t realized, and we get frustrated. It’s tempting in those moments to move to power as a solution. What leverage do I hold? What threat can I make? Or worse, what physical consequences can I mete out?
