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SHOW NOTES:

Peter Belmi, Professor at the Darden School of Business at University of Virginia, studies power, social class and inequality. We discussed how the beliefs we hold about ourselves – many formed by our class background – can perpetuate social inequality. We look at how the world and organizations are not a fair place, but where we the power to do something about that.

SHOW NOTES

• Embrace new things: Peter on Filipino food and Hamilton
• Peter’s research in one sentence and why he focuses on inequality
• How your social class can shape what you view as a “good person” – and how that impacts what you will and won’t do in organizations
• The conundrum: Why people from working class backgrounds may make better leaders – but often don’t get into those positions
• The reframe: how re-thinking behaviors that feel “icky” can benefit us
• Million $ question: So… how should I show up at my meeting next week?
• Before you seek power, you need to first ask this critical question!
• Think about power in a different way to “keep yourself in the game”
• Ends vs means, and how to ensure you don’t get lost in the journey
• Does power corrupt?
• The value of “structured introspection” with a coach
• The biggest barrier people have with power
• “Give yourself a shot” – agency, when you should opt out
• Leading with vulnerability without having it get used against you - “Being situationally appropriate” and “Powering up and powering down”
• Do we have a real self? Why U.S students often push back on the idea of “playing roles”
• How one student “created something out of nothing” to land the job she wanted (power skills in action)
• Personal qualities, positioning yourself strategically and relationship management
• How to Get Promoted: “Your job is to find the right people and get them excited about you.”
• How a controversial fashion blogger will piss you off – but can teach you about crafting a path to power (Peter’s Bryanboy case study)
• Meta-lesson: How being judgmental causes us to stop learning – and holds us back from building power

BIO AND SHOW LINKS:

Peter Belmi is the Scott C. Beardsley Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business. His scholarship on the psychology of inequality has received numerous awards, and he was named one of the "30 emerging thinkers with the potential to make lasting contributions to management theory and practice" (Thinkers50). In 2018, Peter was named by Poets & Quants as one of the "40 Best Business Professors Under 40" and received the University of Virginia's Mead-Colley Award, a distinction given to the professor who embodies the Jeffersonian vision of an ideal teacher. Peter's work is published in leading psychology and management journals, and also been featured by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and across the popular press.

• Email: BelmiP [at] darden.virginia.edu
• Peter’s profile: https://www.darden.virginia.edu/faculty-research/directory/peter-belmi
• Peter’s research on social class and confidence: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31107052/
• Cited research: Kraus, Cote & Keltner on Social Class and Empathic Accuracy https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797610387613
• Peter and Melissa Thomas-Hunt’s exercise “Leading with Vulnerability” http://store.darden.virginia.edu/leading-with-vulnerability
• Deb Gruenfeld: “Power up, Power down” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-skBaZ9o5vg
• Peter’s Bryanboy case study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2974849
• Michael’s Award-winning Book, Get Promoted: https://a.co/d/2oRmqF4