254: Use Power for Good and Not Evil, with Dacher Keltner

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Dacher Keltner: The Power Paradox Dacher shows us how to use power for good and the most important ways we can gain and lose influence. Quotes We need to rethink what power is … it’s not necessarily a dirty word. —Dacher Keltner If you can just stay interested in other people and know where their minds are, you will rise in power … and you will keep your power because people will respect you. —Dacher Keltner In today’s collaborative workplace, our power rests critically upon the good work of other people. —Dacher Keltner One of the things that accompanies leadership and power is the privilege of enhancing the lives of other people. —Dacher Keltner I really see power as having an enormous force for good. —Dacher Keltner Resources The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence* by Dacher Keltner The Secret to Being a Better Leader: See and Hear Others by Dacher Keltner Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	Oh, how power can be an uncomfortable word. But if used well, power can move mountains that will help people.
0:10.0	On today's episode, how to Use Your Power for Good and Not Evil.
0:16.0	This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 254.
0:20.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:29.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:32.0	This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.
0:37.0	Leaders aren't born, they're made.
0:40.0	And this weekly show will give you access to the best thinkers, resources, and actions
0:46.8	to help you develop your leadership skills.
0:49.9	And welcome back if you are returning to the show show if you're tuning in for the first time.
0:55.4	I'm so glad to welcome you today's topic one that all of us navigate in
1:02.0	leadership not only in leadership in really every interaction in our lives
1:07.2	and yet it's a topic that not only many of us don't really understand fully. It's also a topic that comes with a lot of
1:15.9	baggage for many of us. I know it does for me and that is the that is the
1:19.8	principle or the topic or however we're going to frame it around power and how power can be utilized
1:27.0	for good or for evil depending on how you look at it and also how we can both gain and lose influence and today's
1:36.5	guest is going to really help provide perspective on that and our guest is
1:41.0	Dacker Keltner he is a professor of psychology at the University of California Berkeley
1:46.7	and the faculty director of the UC Berkeley Reader Good Science Center.
1:51.6	His research interests span the issues of power, inequality, and social class.
1:57.6	And he's the author, the best-selling book,
1:59.6	Born to be Good, the science of a meaningful life, and he's here today to share wisdom on his
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