Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence and Born to Be Good, and a co-editor of The Compassionate Instinct.

Show Highlights:

Enduring leadership is sustained by service. -Dacher KeltnerYou’re only as good as the connections you have with the people you lead. -Dacher Keltner“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” -Lord John Dalberg-ActonGreat leadership requires emotional intelligence. -Dacher KeltnerWhen we feel impressed with our own power, it degrades our civility. -Christine Porath (paraphrased)

Dacher’s closing thoughts: There is moral hypocrisy. People in power at work are more likely to bill things to expense accounts that are inappropriate, but when called out on it, they’re going to say the rules don’t apply to them. They only apply to other people.

Next week, hear Dacher’s ideas for solutions to this corruption.

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