We provide a brief overview of why and how power is important to leaders. The scholarly fields of power and leadership both have rich histories yet have largely developed independently of one another, even though they both heavily inform one another. Our intention is to bring these two topics closer and create more synergies for power and leadership scholars. In this introductory editorial, we briefly review current literature that has examined both of these subjects in tandem. We then look at the field of power more broadly and explain how it has evolved recently in order to provide insights on what still needs to be done to ensure rigorous study of leader power. Next, we summarize the papers we accepted for the special issue and explain how they address current scholarly needs on the science of leader power. Finally, we conclude with an encouraging note for more research dedicated to bridging the fields of leadership and power.

我们简要概述了权力对领导者的重要性和重要性。权力和领导力这两个学术领域都有丰富的历史，但在很大程度上彼此独立发展，尽管它们都相互提供了大量信息。我们的目的是将这两个主题拉近，并为权力和领导力学者创造更多的协同效应。在这篇介绍性社论中，我们简要回顾了同时研究这两个主题的当前文献。然后，我们更广泛地审视权力领域，并解释它最近是如何演变的，以便深入了解仍需要做些什么来确保对领导权力的严格研究。接下来，我们总结了我们为特刊接受的论文，并解释了它们如何满足当前学术界对领导力科学的需求。最后，