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The Leader Learner podcast is for readers and leaders of all kinds.
Rather than talk to authors about the professional development books that they have written, the Leader Learner podcast spotlights readers and delves into their process the book(s) that have had an impact on them and their work.
This podcast is brought to you by Theresa Destrebecq, founder of Emerge Book Circles.
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The Leader Learner Podcast
S03E01: The Power to Be Episode
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Theresa Destrebecq & Vincent Musolino
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Season 3
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Episode 1
Check-In:
- What's better, love or money? Which has more power, love or money? What's more powerful, love or money?
Big Ideas:
- Money as a substitution for time
- Infatuation can be a very powerful motivator.
- Differentiation between moments of happiness and love
- Putting love into leadership
- People going back to work just to see the people
- Power and the complexity of human relationships
- Power has a negative connotation
- Having power is a privilege
- Your relationship to power can hold you back, especially if you think of it as negative
- Power over, power to, power with (Brené Brown)
- When power is used to "control you" may give you a negative view of power
- 4 Elements of Power as per Ted Jenkins
- Power of position
- Power of expertise
- Power of connections
- Power of personal authority
- 6 Elements of Power as per French and Raven (1960's source)
- Formal Power
- Power of Consequence (power of sanction and reward)
- The other 4 are the same as above
- Women use their power of expertise almost to a fault
- Extroversion and Introversion are not scientifically backed
- Power of position/legitimacy is given - we agree to give others that power
- Can one have power of position without any of the other powers?
- Is "authority" the right word? Confusion of power and authority
- Is authority, really about charisma?
- Personal authority and the relationship with trust
- Information brokers - knowledge power
- Information is not the same as expertise
- Connection between money and power
- Politicians starting with personal authority, which leads to connections, and then to position
- What are we gaining by giving people power over us?
- Power over you is like being in a prison
- Grow our own sense of power, and continue to have choice
- Societal and group power
- Systems changing from outside, not from inside
- Is power of personal authority, connection, and expertise enough when the power of position is so strong?
Resources:
- Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman
- Love as a Business Strategy, by Frank E. Danna and Mohammad F. Anwar
- The Work Lab, by Microsoft
- How Women Rise, by Sally Helgeson and Marshall Rosenberg
- Rising Together, by Sally Helgesen
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