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Jeffrey Pfeffer: belief

13 Jun 2024 Lenny's Podcast 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)

“If I think power is dirty, the first thing that's going to happen is I'm not going to do what I need to do to be successful in my career.”

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

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Speaker
Jeffrey Pfeffer
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
13 Jun 2024
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

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…People might be hearing this and they're like, "I don't want to be this person." Well, you already have done a fabulous job of illustrating principle one. That is one way to get in our own way. If I think power is dirty, the first thing that's going to happen is I'm not going to do what I need to do to be successful in my career. 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.…

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