We have power!!! (In one sense of the word.)

So this week is better, in a big way... We got power back Sunday evening! After 12 days without it and 10 days without water, I sort of felt like a mole crawling out of my hole. (Or a druggie, awaking from a clouded stupor.) Imagine my surprise when I could walk from room to room and not have to bring my own source of light! Or clean the bathroom without worrying if I'd have enough water to flush the toilet AND clean residue gunk off my hands! It was amazing. You should have been there when the toilet was cleaning and sparkling... I felt a little emotional...
But alas, life likes to hand out trade-offs, so this week I'm sick. (Last weekend Aiden was sick with strep but he got antibiotics so that doesn't count anymore.) And I have tons of school work. This week and next week I have 2 tests, a quiz, 2 assignments and 2 projects due. This is all for 2 online classes! Luckily I like the subject matter, but still.
Another thing came up this week that has me perplexed. My Organizational Behavior course text stated that it should almost be a requirement that, for a manager to be effective, he or she should have a need for power (defined as the need to make others behave in a way in which they would not have behaved otherwise). Ok... I've never had a high power motive (their words), so what does that mean for my future in business? I won't be effective unless I have some insatiable urge to control others? I'm guessing I'll have to interpret power in my own way - perhaps the need to make other behave better than they normally would? But it just seems wrong, from the examples I've seen in life, to feel a need to manipulate others to behave differently that what comes natural to them.

Sigh. I have a lot to learn in business.