Power

“We're going to talk about his new book, Seven Rules for Power. It's basically how you can gain power in the business workplace. It's super candid.”

“Jeffrey's got a new book out. It's called Seven Rules of Power, surprising but true advice on how to get things done and advance your career. And I listened to it this weekend while I was here in Tahoe going on bike rides and hikes.”

“You go to great lengths in the book to let people know, I think because maybe the culture has shifted a bit from the greed is good, you know, '80s, '90s, even into the 2000s, "Hey, accumulate power, change the world."”

“Yeah, you give a lot of examples of this in the book just to I mean, some of the most successful people we know had so many failures and just people don't remember them. They remember the wins.”

“All right, I'm talking to Jeffrey Pfeffer uh who has written The Seven Rules of Power here on his fourth appearance on the pod. Uh I've given you a new subtitle for your book Seven Rules of Power, How Trump went from nobody to president.”

“And then here, I mean, understanding once you have acquired power, your final chapter, what you did to get it will be forgiven, forgotten, or both. In his case, I mean, he seems to have gotten away with it all.”

“He showed up at TED literally in jeans and sneakers and a sweatshirt, and he looked like a homeless guy. Um and showing up in powerful fashion, at that time people didn't have a lot of planes, you know, he would fly all of these scientists from MIT, etc., Joe Ito, um Marvin Minsky, he would fly them on his”

“It's your best book yet. It's a quick read. It's an essential read. If you want to get power, you know, and you spend 15, 20, 30 bucks on one of these books, you get one or two good things out of it.”

“It's back to that authenticity. People if it if the book was fiction and the author is just making the stuff up, yeah, go with the best narrator possible. But here, you want to hear the person.”

“Also, no one will have the same level. I mean, this is what I've heard from people who've listened to Seven Rules. Um no one will have the same passion about your subject as you have.”

“I'm writing my next book right now and the interesting thing about it and I got it by the way, I was writing my book and I got a couple of ideas stylistically. I will tell you off air. But I just like really liked your use of like you're very I'll just tell it on here.”

“So the seven rule the, you know, Seven Rules of Power, the book that I did write, is essentially the book I could have written about Donald Trump, but instead of being it about Donald Trump, it's about a bunch of other people, including Elon Musk”

“We respond to how people look, you know, when when Jim Collins got fired out of Stanford, he gave me a book called Chimpanzee Politics. He said, I should have read your earlier book on power managing with power.”

“So, what I'm talking about, you know, if I say when I give somebody the Jason Calacanis case or the Keith Ferrazzi case or I introduce them to John Levy, who by the way is himself kind of an introvert if you get to know him, um this is not about you don't have to become Jason”