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It’s the subject that rules our working lives—yet one most of us would rather avoid, deny, or fight. The subject is power, and renowned management thinker and researcher Jeffrey Pfeffer has literally written the book on understanding it, winning it (and keeping it), and wielding it for positive impact: Power—Why Some People Have it and Others Don’t. In this rigorous, refreshing, and brutally honest conversation with MIX founder Gary Hamel, Pfeffer will unpack the nuances of organizational power, offer up big-picture insights on our relationship with power, and share practical tactics for acting powerfully and winning at work. The author of thirteen research-based books on performance, power, and people at work, Pfeffer has taught a class at Stanford on power and organizational politics since 1979.
Jeff and Gary will discuss (and invite questions on) such topics as:
- Is power passé? What does it mean to win power and influence people in the Collaborative Age?
- The relationship between job performance, personal success and organizational greatness
- Power rules: counterintuitive advice, surprising research findings, and down-to-earth tactics and strategies for winning and keeping power
- The price of power: if everybody knows the rules of power, why do so few people follow them?
- How do you harness power not just for individual gain but for positive change in organizations and wider world?
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Presenters
Jeffrey Pfeffer 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 thirteen books including The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First, Managing with Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations, The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge Into Action, Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People, Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management, as well as more than 120 articles and book chapters.
Pfeffer’s latest book is Power: Why Some People Have It—And Others Don’t. Many of its research-based insights are explored in his classic Stanford class: Power and Politics in Organizations (now called The Paths to Power) which he has taught since 1979.
Pfeffer's agenda-setting writing has appeared in a number of forums. Since 2007, he has written a monthly column providing career advice for Capital, a leading business and economics magazine in Turkey and, more recently, a blog for the Corner Office section of BNET. Pfeffer currently serves on the board of directors of the for-profit company Audible Magic as well as nonprofits Quantum Leap Healthcare and The San Francisco Playhouse.
The Wall Street Journal recently ranked Gary Hamel as the world's most influential business thinker, and Fortune has called him "the world's leading expert on business strategy." For the last three years, Hamel has also topped Executive Excellence magazine's annual ranking of the most sought after management speakers. Hamel's landmark books, Leading the Revolution and Competing for the Future, have appeared on every management bestseller list and have been translated into more than 20 languages. His latest book, The Future of Management, was published by the Harvard Business School Press in October 2007 and was selected by Amazon.com as the best business book of the year. Since 1983, Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School where he is currently Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management. Hamel is the driving force behind the Management Innovation eXchange. For more, visit his MIX Team Member profile page.
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