Unlocking Your Power at Work: Why you underestimate your own power with Deborah Gruenfeld
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Unlocking Your Power at Work: Why you underestimate your own power with Deborah Gruenfeld

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 21, 202642 min
  • Interview
  • Relationships & psychology

In the modern workplace, hierarchy and power differences are often viewed as problems to solve. But Deborah Gruenfeld has a different perspective: hierarchy is not only essential to organizations, but we actually crave it in our relationships and communities. Deborah is a professor at Stanford University and a social and organizational psychologist who studies power and powerlessness. In this episode, she joins Anne and Frances to demystify how power actually works at work, why people underestimate their own power, and how to use the power you already have more skillfully. She also offers practical tips for playing your own...

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You should tell the people who we are and what our new show is. I'm Robert Smith. This is Jacob Goldstein. And we used to host a show called Planet Money. And now we're back making this new podcast about the best ideas and people and businesses in history.

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And some of the worst people, horrible ideas and destructive companies in the history of business. We struggled to come up with a name, decided to call it business history. You know why? Why? Because this show about the history of business, available.

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everywhere you get your podcasts. Chickens are very hierarchical. I don't know if you know this and people have studied higher. Yeah. So, pecking order comes from chickens.

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