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u/redabenomar · 80 pointsr/europe

Want to hear an unfortunate truth ? Assholes succeed in life precisely because they are assholes.

Jeffrey Pfeffer is ranked as one of the best business school professors in the United States. He has studied political parties, large corporations and powerful politicians for decades. He is an expert on power. He is a professor at Stanford University.

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/jeffrey-pfeffer

According to Pfeffer, all the talks about corporate social responsabilities are lies. All the talks about nice guys are lies. Complete assholes suceed all the time with women and in the business world. However, anybody proclaiming that reality in public will get attacked by society because society hates to hear it. He wrote an entire book on that :

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Some-People-Have-Others/dp/0061789089

This is how he described Donald Trump :

>For the most part, real-world success comes from behaviors that are precisely the opposite of typical leadership prescriptions. Trump actually embodies many of the leadership qualities that cause people to succeed—albeit they are pretty much the opposite of what leadership experts tout. Trump takes liberties with the facts. No, he did not write the best-selling business book of all time, as he claimed. And some aspects of his business acumen and success are clearly exaggerated—after all, Trump-named casinos went into bankruptcy. No matter. Telling the truth is an overrated quality for leaders.

>Leaders lie with more frequency and skill than others. Some of the most revered and wealthiest people mastered the skill of presenting a less than veridical version of reality. Larry Ellison, like many people working in software, exaggerated the availability and features of products. And then there’s Steve Jobs. The phrase “reality distortion field” says a lot about Jobs’ fabulous ability to make things that weren’t true become true through his assertions of their truthfulness, a widely known process called the self-fulfilling prophecy.

>Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s recent call for servant leaders is well intentioned. But at a time when CEO salaries have soared to more than 300 times that of their companies’ average employees, there’s not too much servant leadership going on.

>Another piece of the puzzle: most leadership talks, books, and blogs describe aspirational qualities we wish our leaders possessed. So we tell stories about unique, heroic, unusual people and situations—not quite realizing that the very uniqueness probably makes such tales, even if they are true (and they are often not), a poor guide for coping with the world as it exists.

>My recommendation? First, understand the social science that speaks to the qualities that make people successful, at least by some definitions: the economic penalties, particularly for men, from being too nice; research that shows that lying in everyday life is both common and mostly not sanctioned; and the evidence that narcissistic leaders in Silicon Valley earn more money and remain longer in their CEO roles. The only way to change the world is first understanding how it really works.

http://fortune.com/2015/08/07/donald-trump-leadership-lessons/

u/Hizbal · 55 pointsr/worldnews

Few people know it but Steinmetz is also involved in the Panama Papers

He has acquired diamonds mines in Africa where he declares almost nothing in taxes. He is part of the people that are RAPING Africa. People talk about "corporations looting africa" or "corporations commiting crimes. Fuck the word "corporations". Stop using that word. Corporations are just some empty mask. They are run by men and owned by men. Very rich men. Men such as Steinemetz.

https://panamapapers.investigativecenters.org/guinea/

Want to hear an unfortunate truth ? Assholes succeed in life precisely because they are assholes

Jeffrey Pfeffer is ranked as one of the best business school professors in the United States. He has studied political parties, large corporations and powerful politicians for decades. He is an expert on power. He is a professor at Stanford University.

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/jeffrey-pfeffer

According to Pfeffer, all the talks about corporate social responsabilities are lies. All the talks about nice guys are lies.
Complete assholes suceed all the time with women and in the business world. However, anybody proclaiming that reality in public will get attacked by society because society hates to hear it. He wrote an entire book on that :

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Some-People-Have-Others/dp/0061789089

This is how he described Donald Trump :

>For the most part, real-world success comes from behaviors that are precisely the opposite of typical leadership prescriptions. Trump actually embodies many of the leadership qualities that cause people to succeed—albeit they are pretty much the opposite of what leadership experts tout. Trump takes liberties with the facts. No, he did not write the best-selling business book of all time, as he claimed. And some aspects of his business acumen and success are clearly exaggerated—after all, Trump-named casinos went into bankruptcy. No matter. Telling the truth is an overrated quality for leaders.

>Leaders lie with more frequency and skill than others. Some of the most revered and wealthiest people mastered the skill of presenting a less than veridical version of reality. Larry Ellison, like many people working in software, exaggerated the availability and features of products. And then there’s Steve Jobs. The phrase “reality distortion field” says a lot about Jobs’ fabulous ability to make things that weren’t true become true through his assertions of their truthfulness, a widely known process called the self-fulfilling prophecy.

>Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s recent call for servant leaders is well intentioned. But at a time when CEO salaries have soared to more than 300 times that of their companies’ average employees, there’s not too much servant leadership going on.

>Another piece of the puzzle: most leadership talks, books, and blogs describe aspirational qualities we wish our leaders possessed. So we tell stories about unique, heroic, unusual people and situations—not quite realizing that the very uniqueness probably makes such tales, even if they are true (and they are often not), a poor guide for coping with the world as it exists.

>My recommendation? First, understand the social science that speaks to the qualities that make people successful, at least by some definitions: the economic penalties, particularly for men, from being too nice; research that shows that lying in everyday life is both common and mostly not sanctioned; and the evidence that narcissistic leaders in Silicon Valley earn more money and remain longer in their CEO roles. The only way to change the world is first understanding how it really works.

http://fortune.com/2015/08/07/donald-trump-leadership-lessons/

u/inspir0nd · 2 pointsr/IWantToLearn

Wow, there is a lot of misinformation in this thread. I recommend you consider the sources and read this book before you take any of the advice here.

u/BarkingDogey · 1 pointr/AskMen

Here's a good book on office politics and power:
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Some-People-Have-Others/dp/0061789089/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1494507090&sr=8-3&keywords=power

At first glance this might seem kind of lowbrow but it's actually quite a good paradigm to think in

u/goldengatethrow · 1 pointr/SuicideWatch

Nice! That's good too. Don't let anyone tell you any different. Get this book. I don't like to lift weight either, but this book makes it easy to just do some bodyweight exercises in the middle of a run.

Ok, so back to your problems. I wish someone had told me this when I was younger, but, what you need to do is go outside normal avenues to quickly accelerate. Here's another good book

I hope this will help you to accelerate your career. There's nothing like a successful career to jump start your self worth and esteem.

You keep bringing up work related stuff in your post, so I assume that's what's mostly bothering you. That's normal when you're in college. What you need to do is do things out of the ordinary, to get yourself separated from other people in your age/education group. Pm me for more details, good luck. Don't give up, cuz you're probably awesome . . .

u/hiperhiper · 1 pointr/asktrp

Well, I understand your point. However I must say that I see both sides of your argument and my own argument. That guy (not my boss) I just mentioned "jumped" two positions by getting closer to the CEO without having the competence. He spends half of his day socializing at work. His is seem as a threat yes to other people in management but he built an close relationship to my boss (he is trying to push other managers out while hiring people that he gets along to work under him). But at the same time he indeed he used his sales skill in a company of nerds and built his way to the top, which means there is some value in being liked, and that is exactly what this books talks about: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Some-People-Have-Others/dp/0061789089 . This is a recurrent theme in corporations, people that perform poor (unless you are working for very intellectual companies like Google) is often forgiven for poor performance or their reviews are skewed, while others are punished even when they do well because they are not liked.

I also found this: https://money.howstuffworks.com/brownnosing1.htm