Power Corrupts, But It Doesn’t Have To

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🗓️ 13 October 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Authority changes us all. Berkeley's Dacher Keltner, author of the HBR article "Don't Let Power Corrupt You" and the book "The Power Paradox" explains how to avoid succumbing to power's negative effects.

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0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the HBR Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Eben Harrell, a senior editor and I'm delighted to be joined today by
0:35.6	Dacker Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California at
0:39.2	Berkeley. We're going to discuss Dacker's new book The Power Paradox,
0:43.0	How We Gain and Lose Influence,
0:45.0	and an article in the October 2016 edition of HBR,
0:48.0	title Don't Let Power Corrupt You.
0:51.0	Dacker, thanks very much for joining us today.
0:54.0	It's great to talk to you, Evan.
0:55.0	Decker, there's a famous quote, Lord Acton, our listeners are probably familiar with
0:58.7	power corrupts.
1:00.6	You've spent many years demonstrating that in experimental settings. Can you describe some of that research?
1:07.0	Sure, so you know if you look out in the world it's really easy to see examples of politicians and
1:13.7	rock stars and
1:15.4	famous athletes in the light you know abusing their power and doing kind of ridiculous
1:19.2	things but i think
1:20.4	the key question is whether this idea of power corrupt supplies to us all and that's why we do these studies.
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