7 Rules of Power: Surprising Advice on How to Advance Your Career

Workshop with Jeffrey Pfeffer who is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University where he has taught since 1979. He is the author or co-author of 16 books including:

Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance–And What We Can Do about It
Leadership B.S.: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time;
The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First;
Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don’t;
The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge Into Action;
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management
And more than 150 articles and book chapters.

Learning Objectives:

1) Understanding power.

2) Understanding why power dynamics remain largely unchanged both over time and across cultures and subgroups.

3) Understanding how we get in our own way and what we might do differently.

The 7 rules are:
1) Get out of your own way.
2) Break the rules.
3) Show up in powerful fashion.
4) Create a powerful brand.
5) Network relentlessly.
6) Use your power.
7) Understand that once you have acquired power, what you did to get it will be forgiven, forgotten, or both.