Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2024-06-13
Lenny Rachitsky & Jeffrey Pfeffer: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey Pfeffer (author of 7 Rules of Power, professor at Stanford GSB)
Jeffrey Pfeffer teaches the single most popular (and somewhat controversial) class at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business: The Paths to Power. He’s also the author of 16 books, including 7 Rules of Power: Surprising—But True—Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career.
Lenny Rachitsky discussed Power by Jeffrey Pfeffer and The Knowing-doing Gap by Jeffrey Pfeffer and others. Jeffrey Pfeffer recommended You're Invited by Jon Levy, and discussed Getting a Job by Mark Granovetter, Acting with Power by Deborah Gruenfeld, and Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Power
Discussed“The opening quote in your book that I have here, "If you want power to be used for good, more good people need to have power."”
Where to get it
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The Knowing-doing Gap
Discussed“While we're on this tangent, cuz I wanted to talk about this whole You have a book, The Doing The Knowing-Doing Gap, right? The Knowing-Doing Gap. So, let's just spend a little time there, cuz I think that's really important.”
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You're Invited
Recommended“My friend John Levy who has written a fabulous book You're Invited, um which is a book about how to put on events that people want to come to. And it's a fabulous one. We'll tell you that the first principle of networking is in fact generosity.”
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Getting a Job
Discussed“His book was called Getting a Job. And he did a study, I guess he was at that time in Boston. He did a study of job seekers in Massachusetts. And he looked at people who got jobs through applying to ads um and through more formal means.”
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Acting with Power
Discussed“My friend Deborah Gruenfeld, who wrote a book called Acting with Power, talks a lot about people's ambivalence to power. So sometimes people are put in a job.”
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Chimpanzee Politics
Discussed“It's, you know, when Jim Collins left Stanford, he gave me a book called Chimpanzee Politics, which is of course not based on the Planet of the Apes, but it's based upon the study of the chimpanzees. We are the same.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The No Asshole Rule
“At the end of the day, you don't want to be you don't want to be intentionally disliked. You don't want to violate my dear friend Bob Sutton's book for the rule and gratuitously be an But, you are hired to do to get a job done.”
Passing Power
“And you know, I was married, you know, and so if you if you read the acknowledgements in um uh Seven Rules of Power, for more than 35 years I was married to Kathleen Francis Fowler, who I could send you a picture.”
Passing The Strength of Weak Ties
“Mark Granovetter, a sociologist who still teaches at Stanford, wrote a book entitled The Strength of Weak Ties. And that's and basically uh no actually, pardon me, he wrote an article called The Strength of Weak Ties. His book was called Getting a Job.”
Passing Tell
“So, my colleague at Berkeley, Dana Carney, c a r n e y s writing a book called Tell, which is about the importance of body language and how to master body language.”
Plugged Power
“You can find it on Amazon, Seven Rules of Power. You know, so you can That's how you can find the book.”
Plugged Power
“The Seven Rules of Power is well footnoted. It talks at the end about, you know, you could reach out for the coaches, you can go to the website and get the book. You know, I think But, I think consistent with what you and I have talked about, if all you do is read, you're not going to make”
Plugged The Knowing-doing Gap
“Which is a good uh plug for your other book, The Knowing-Doing Gap, which actually helps you with the skill, which you can also find at all your uh finer finer retails retailers.”