Posts tagged with: Keltner
How having power is like having brain damage: a new book explains why systems fail (2018)
'Meltdown. Why our systems fail and what we can do about it', Clearfield, C., & Tilcsik, A. Atlantic Books, 2018. Excerpt via The Star, 1 April 2018. A new book,...
Hedge fund managers with psychopathic tendencies make for worse investors (2018)
“When choosing our leaders in organizations and in politics, we should keep in mind that psychopathic traits—like ruthlessness and callousness—don’t produce the successful outcomes that we might expect them to.”...
Psychology suggests that power doesn’t make people bad—it just reveals their true natures (2016)
"The more power people get, the more freedom they feel they have to be their authentic selves, acting consistently with their goals and values. In other words, power isn’t inherently...
Sex, power, and the systems that enable men like Harvey Weinstein (2017)
"The challenge...is to change social systems in which the abuses of power arise and continue unchecked." Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at University of California, Berkeley. Harvard Business Review, October 13, 2017 "...my research into...
The personal sense of power. (2012)
"..possessing power shapes individual behavior because it instills an elevated sense of power. However, little is known about the personal sense of power because very few studies have examined it...
The Power Trip. (2010) Nice people are actually more likely to rise to power. But then authority atrophies the very talents that got them there.
"The very traits that helped leaders accumulate control in the first place all but disappear once they rise to power. Instead of being polite, honest and outgoing, they become impulsive,...
Leadership and the psychology of power. (2005)
“…power is disinhibiting… to understand leadership behaviour it is important to consider the psychological effects of power on the leader” Joe C. Magee, Deborah. H. Gruenfeld; Stanford University Dacher J....