Tuesday, October 19, 2010

What Makes People Powerful

Why are some people incredibly powerful? Are there certain traits that we can learn from the Steve Jobses of the world?

A new book from Stanford University professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, Ph.D., delves into this very issue. Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, released his book, Power: Why Some People Have it and Others Don't last month. Pfeffer's argument is that there's a crucial skill set that separates alphas like as Steve Jobs and Google ( GOOG - news - people ) cofounder Larry Page from the omegas--and that potentially matters more than I.Q., charisma, and even hard work.

more at forbes 

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