Is Power Evil? A critique of Jeffrey Pfeffer's 7 Rules of Power

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Does the word power make you squirm?

Hunger for world domination? Or create an ambivalent in-between?

In his book '7 Rules for Power', long-tenured Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer explains how power is a skill that can be taught.

Backed by social science research, Pfeffer walks us through 7 Rules he says are paramount in harnessing the not-so-dark art of power and using it to your advantage.

Can you learn how to be more powerful? And can it really be used for good?

I did a talk on this recently.

Click here to watch the video (20mins).

Addictive Thinking: What Is Addiction? How It's Not The Thing, It's What You Believe [VIDEO]

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Addictive Thinking: What Is Addiction? How It's Not The Thing, It's What You Believe [VIDEO]

What is addiction? And why do some people get addicted, and others don't?

I used to say I had an addictive personality. I could get quite obsessive and was very all-or-nothing. And just as Ms. Mary-J had been something I was all-in on as a teenager, alcohol was no different in my twenties…

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