The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey Pfeffer (author of 7 Rules of Power, professor at Stanford GSB)

We're gonna be talking about how to grow your power. The reason why you should pay attention to this is because it leads to a lot of good things. South, getting promoted, being happy in your career, being less stressed. You're not describing how the world should work. It's this is just how it is. Not only is, but how it was and how it will be. The seven rules of power. Get out of your own way, break the rules, show up in a powerful fashion, create a powerful brand, network relentlessly, use your power, and understand that once you've acquired power, what you did to get there will be forgiven, forgotten, or not about personality. These are skills that can be master. People might be hearing this and they're like, I don't wanna be this person. Well, you already have done a fabulous job of illustrating principle one. That is one way of If I think power

is dirty the first thing that's gonna happen is I'm not gonna do what I need to do to be successful in my c The opening quote to your book that I have here. If you want power to be used for good, more good people need to have power. That's exactly right. Today, my guest is Jeffrey Fefer. Jeffrey's a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. And teaches one of the two most popular and oversubscribed courses in all of the NBA program called The Path to Power.

The other class, by the way, is Techy Feely, which we dove into last month. In his class and in his recent book, The Seven Rules of Power. Jeffrey teaches the things that you can do in your life and in your work. To build your power. And through that, get things done and advance in your career.

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