The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey Pfeffer (Stanford)
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- Jeffrey Pfeffer teaches the single most popular (and somewhat controversial) class at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business: The Paths to Power. He’s also the author of 16 books, including 7 Rules of Power: Surprising-But True-Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career. He has taught at Harvard, the London Business School, and IESE and has written for publications like Fortune and the Washington Post. Recognized by the Academy of Management and listed in the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame, Jeffrey also serves on several corporate and nonprofit boards, bringing his expertise to global audiences through seminars and executive education. In our conversation, we discuss:
• Jeffrey’s seven rules of power
• How individuals can acquire and use power in business
• Networking, and how to do it effectively
• How to build a non-cringe personal brand
• How to increase your influence to amplify your impact
• Examples and stories of people building power
• Tradeoffs and challenges that come with power
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In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Jeffrey’s background
(02:54) Understanding discomfort with power
(04:56) Power skills for underrepresented groups
(07:51) The popularity and challenges of Jeffrey’s class at Stanford
(12:21) The seven rules of power
(13:03) Success stories from his course
(15:43) Building a personal brand
(21:11) Getting out of your own way
(26:04) Breaking the rules to gain power
(30:34) Networking relentlessly
(40:10) Why Jeffrey says to “pursue weak ties”
(42:00) Using your power to build more power
(44:34) The importance of appearance and body language
(47:15) Mastering the art of presentation
(55:12) Examples of homework assignments that Jeffrey gives students
(59:11) People will forget how you acquired power
(01:03:58) More good people need to have power
(01:10:49) The price of power and autonomy
(01:17:13) A homework assignment for you
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The last part was the best!
Freedom vs. Power. I think the definition of power here was very specific to having status, being on top of the hierarchy, etc. (just like so often success means having more money)
Incredible episode! Thank you Prof. Pfeffer, and thank you Lenny!
@Lenny Maybe you should make these as podcast series, interviewing the authors/professors teaching most coveted MBA courses by students at these business schools (you did that with the top 2 from Stanford). Thanks for doing this!
Love that. Any specific courses/professors you'd suggest?
@@LennysPodcastsome interesting cases might be
HBS, innovation and new product development, Alan MacCormack
MIT Sloan, system dynamics, John Sterman
Wharton, finance of technological innovation, David Wessels and so forth.
But I think you have a strong network and know students and alumni from these and other top business schools who could also share their insights.
@@ieraj7428 amazing, thank you!! Will dig into these, and be on the lookout.
Totally agree - great idea
Fantastic idea. Really enjoy learning from great professors. Someone should write down a list of must-follow professors
This is pure gold!
Thanks
The way Lenny said yes at the $1B before he even finished the sentence 😄
😂😂
Always enjoy your podcasts!
I enjoy your episodes immensely. I am glad I found you. Yesterday, I was on the NYC subway, and the passenger seated next to me was listening to your podcast. I nodded and shared that I listen to the podcast, too. Keep up the good work.
The part of networking and they need to know who you are is absolutely true, thanks for the episode Lenny. Amazing piece of content.
Awesome podast and found it so insightful!
Thank you Lenny, Super Podcast
Amazing interview, but can we also talk about how Jeffrey's headset is clutch? I'm digging it 🤩
Thanks for this conversation!
Incredible!
"Power attracts the corruptible" Frank Herbert (Dune)
Now - even if this is true, this should not demoralize people of good in the slightest to try to attain positions of power. It is true that power is a magnet for bad/evil people, but people of good should try to "crowd the bus" of powerful people, instead of helplessly watching villains type crowd it and fortify their positions in it.
Wow
I already seen twice
This was a very first episode I physically hated to listen.
Not only these are the basic lessons that you don’t need somebody to tell you, but they are also coming across very arrogantly.
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I’m just happy that the newer generation does not need to follow these rules to be powerful.
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We can all see that the strength can also come from the place of intelligence, confidence, integrity and from just being a good human.
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A lot of the qualities this guest was portraying are the qualities of not a very nice human. Thank God it almost feels like a legacy.
Denial
Acceptance will follow
I'm certain there are many excellent power relations courses in numerous American universities. There seems to be a continual bias on your show towards Stanford business school, no matter how good they may be.