Trying to persuade your powerful boss of a new idea? Just forget it. Going
by a new study, he would not listen to you. A team of international
researchers has carried out a study and found that when people feel the power of
their position, they normally tend to ignore new opinion — the reason being
"confidence".

"Powerful people
have confidence in what they are thinking. Whether their thoughts are positive
or negative towards an idea, that position is going to be hard to change," said
lead researcher Richard Petty of Ohio State University.

However, the study has also
revealed that the best way to get leaders to consider new ideas is to put them
in a situation where they don’t feel as powerful.

"If you temporarily make a
powerful person feel less powerful, you have a better chance of getting them to
pay attention," said co-researcher Pablo Briol of the Universidad Autnoma de
Madrid in Spain.

The team came
to the conclusion after carrying out two related experiments on a group of
college students in America.

Via Times of India