Pfeffer on Power

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Pfeffer on Power

Jeffrey Pfeffer is a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Author of ‘7 Rules of Power,’ and speaker. Each episode he sits down with a guest who has used these rules of power to enhance and advance their businesses and their own careers in the process. Listen to hear real advice about practical uses of power from the people who wield it in their professional lives with great skill. Level up your own game, and get comfortable with your own POWER.

Episodes

Ep 13 – Christina Troitino, Director of Strategy and Operations at Morning Brew

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: JeffreyPfeffer.com EPISODE 13 – Christina Troitino, Director of Strategy and Operations at Morning Brew Meet Christina Troitino, the director of strategy and operations for the startup Morning Brew. Christina tells her story about shamelessness, breaking the rules, agency, and surmounting her background prior to attending Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. In this episode, you’ll learn: How her Hispanic backgroun...

Jan 31, 2023•21 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep 12 – Lucinda Stewart, Partner, Spencer Stuart

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: JeffreyPfeffer.com EPISODE 12 – Lucinda Stewart, Partner, Spencer Stuart Lucinda Stewart shares the inspiring ways, throughout her career and life, that she has successfully made her way in traditionally male-dominated fields like sports, business, and the Bering Sea. A true example of a business person who embodies the 7 Rules of Power, Lucinda shows how getting others to want to help you on your career journey is in...

Jan 17, 2023•21 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep 11 – Vivas Kumar, CEO & Co-Founder, Mitra Chem

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: https://JeffreyPfeffer.com/ Join Vivas Kumar, CEO, and Co-Founder of Mitra Chem, as we discuss why power and influence are essential topics for people doing their own startups. This episode packs an incredible set of actionable insights from a leader in the race to end climate change. Vivas explains how he used and will continue to use the concepts learned in my The Paths to Power class at Stanford GSB. In this episod...

Jan 03, 2023•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep 10 – Laura Chau, General Partner, Canaan

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: https://JeffreyPfeffer.com/ SHOW NOTES: Laura Chau shares how her story of origin, along with some of the 7 Rules of Power, like getting out of her own way and building a powerful brand, enable her to lean into the power she has cultivated in her career as a General Partner at Canaan. In this episode, we discuss the following: The role conscious brand building plays in achieving and maintaining power How to best work ...

Dec 20, 2022•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep 9 – Daryn Dodson, Managing Partner, Illumen Capital

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: https://JeffreyPfeffer.com/ SHOW NOTES: Daryn Dodson is the founder and managing director of Illumen Capital and is an African American who is changing the world of investable assets so that more women and people of color have a more significant role in investing the multiple trillions of dollars. Daryn shares his personal history along with business philosophies inspired by The 7 Rules of Power. In Episode 9 you’ll l...

Dec 06, 2022•27 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep 8 – Valerie Shen, Partner/COO, G2 Venture Partners

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: https://JeffreyPfeffer.com/ SHOW NOTES: Valerie Shen is Partner and Chief Operating Officer at G2 Venture Partners, overseeing all operational aspects of the firm, which has almost one billion dollars under management. Valerie exemplifies many of the principles within the book 7 Rules of Power and speaks with us about how she began (yes, began) her career as a Chief Operating Officer for a venture capital firm. In thi...

Nov 22, 2022•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep 7 – Sadiq Gillani, Senior Advisor, Attestor Capital

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: https://JeffreyPfeffer.com/ SHOW NOTES: Meet Sadiq Gillani, a Senior Advisor for travel at Attestor Capital, where he is Chairman The Advisory Board for Condor, the second largest airline in Germany. We discuss how he used his association with Lufthansa to leverage his career, his career philosophy, how he spots new opportunities, personal brand building within a corporation, and surviving the departures of people who...

Nov 08, 2022•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep 6 – Rukaiyah Adams, Chief Investment Officer

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: https://JeffreyPfeffer.com/ SHOW NOTES: Meet former Chief Investment Officer at Meyer Memorial Trust and board member of several organizations including Oregon Public Broadcasting (and former student of mine), Rukaiyah Adams. We discuss how she uses power to overcome career challenges and how the personal and professional intersect to affect career decisions and success. Discussed in this episode: Forging a career in ...

Oct 25, 2022•23 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep 5 – Jason Calacanis, Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Author

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: https://JeffreyPfeffer.com/ SHOW NOTES: Jason Calacanis is an entrepreneur and angel investor, amongst many other things, and shares with us three rules of power that have made him an incredibly effective business person. How Jason turned $100,000 into $100 million Growing up in middle-class Brooklyn Fixing laser printers by day and going to Fordham at night The unconventional way he got into Fordham • Willingness to ...

Oct 11, 2022•31 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep 4 – Dr. Sarah Buchner, Serial Entrepreneur

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: https://JeffreyPfeffer.com/ SHOW NOTES: Dr. Sarah Buchner shares what she’s learned in my Paths to Power class at Stanford in the MBA program and how she’s successfully applied power to her career as the Queen of Construction. How the power game began for her when she started her career at age 12 in Austria The ways she learned to show her power The advantages of being an outsider The uniqueness of her PhD Why she alw...

Sep 27, 2022•19 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep 3 – Jon Levy, Founder of Influencers and author of You’re Invited

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: https://JeffreyPfeffer.com/ SHOW NOTES: Jon Levy is a behavioral scientist specializing in human connection, trust, and influence. He is the author of the New York Times Best Seller “You’re Invited”, and Founder of Influencers, the secret dining experience and private community. Jeffrey speaks to Jon about how he started his Influencer Dinners and shares some of the amazing content from his book. How Levy started host...

Sep 13, 2022•21 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep 2 – Benjamin Fernandes, Founder and CEO of Nala Money

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: https://JeffreyPfeffer.com/ SHOW NOTES: Benjamin Fernandes, CEO and founder of Nala, the African payment system, and former student of Jeffrey Pfeffer, discusses how dedication creates opportunities in starting a business. Nala’s valuation is $100 million and their ultimate mission is to increase economic opportunity for Africa globally. How hosting a local TV show at age 17 exposed him to the business of mobile cross...

Sep 13, 2022•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep 1 – Deborah Liu, CEO of Ancestry

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: https://JeffreyPfeffer.com/ SHOW NOTES Deb Liu, CEO of the $4.7 billion company Ancestry, author of Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work and a former student of Jeffrey Pfeffer, Ph.D shares how she overcame enormous amounts of challenges and career discrimination, why amplifying your work is a generous act, and questions to bring you to reaching your career goals more efficiently. How her careers at Pa...

Sep 13, 2022•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Pfeffer on Power - Podcast Trailer

Do you want to learn tips that will help you accelerate your career? Listen to the trailer for the Pfeffer on Power accelerating your career Podcast with your host, Jeffrey Pfeffer. Every other week, Stanford business professor and author Jeffrey Pfeffer talks to a guest who has utilized Pfeffer's Principles of Power to accelerate their career, to get out of their own way, and to accomplish amazing things.

Sep 08, 2022•1 min•Transcript available on Metacast