power
7 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 21, 2018 by Dacher Keltner · across every show →
Everything said about power, oldest first
Feb 21, 2018 negative
Acquiring Power Biologically Impairs Empathy and Degrades Foundational Social Skills
“Once you feel powerful... You lose all the social skills that got you power in the first place, you know, and, you know, we show when I feel powerful, I read people's emotions less effectively, I interrupt them more, And then all hell breaks loose, and you kno…”
Mar 13, 2018 positive
Heffernan: Women view power as orchestration rather than domination
“It isn't that women don't like power at all, but that we think of it differently. So many of the very, very successful women I interviewed for that book, and for my second book, which is about the rise of female entrepreneurship, women on top, Thought of power…”
Mar 13, 2018 negative
Feb 2, 2021
Parrish: Centralizing power lets leaders blame execution when things fail
“By keeping the power, we also have the excuse that somebody didn't execute properly, you know, like, you know, so we have, not only do we have this story in the narrative of how important we are on one hand, we also have the story in the narrative where when t…”
Jun 17, 2025
Feb 3, 2026 negative
Ovitz: Entertainment power lists are nonsense and power is an ephemeral lease
“I thought these power lists that they developed in the entertainment business were just sheer nonsense because there's no such thing as power. It doesn't exist. And when people would say this one's the second most or the 10th most or you're the most powerful, …”