Buret McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

Most leadership advice says the same thing.

To be a good leader need to be generous, humble and authentic.

My guest, Professor of Organizational Behavior Jeffrey Feffer, would say that kind of advice

may make us feel good and represent the world as we like it to be, but it doesn't actually

work in the world as it really is.

What the research shows does work is what he lays out in his book, seven rules of power,

surprising, but true, advice on how to get things done in advance your career.

People often have negative associations with power, but Jeffrey would argue that power,

in many of the techniques involved in getting it, are morally neutral and can be used for

ill or for good.

So if you have worthy aim and want to grow your influence and move up in your job, you

have to get comfortable going after something that may make you uncomfortable.

Jeffrey shares how to do that as we take a quick and dirty dive into the real rules of

power.

After the show's over, check out our show notes at a-wim.ias slash rules of power.

All right, Jeffrey Feffer, welcome to the show.

It's a pleasure to be with you.

Thank you for having me on.

So you are a professor at Stanford and you've spent a lot of your career researching, writing,

teaching about business organization, but particularly power.

You've written a few books about human power.

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