The Power of Balance

Should  organizations be able to mark their own homework - or should performance evaluation be done entirely independently? 

Does it make any sense for companies to be good corporate citizens?

Does delegated leadership really work - or is it a recipe for distorted information?

Just three of the questions that Stephen Barden asks in this episode. Whether you agree with his answers or not - they're central to the future of good management and leadership.

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Surely this is an absurd idea: that tenderness can be - is ,in fact - powerful?  In this episode Stephen Barden dives into the even more absurd idea that tenderness in the workplace is an extraordinary powerful tool for building strong and thriving organizations. 

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Host Stephen Barden asks: 

How do we make sure that we don’t shrink ourselves when we outsource to others – to technology or to other people? 

How do we keep a reasonable balance between making sure we maintain our own power of learning from experience – on the one hand- and being agile and quick off the mark on the other?

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The third guest in this special series is not someone you would immediately think of as speaking truth to power. Yet retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges has consistently done just that — especially when reminding the U.S. military of its core values and allegiance to the Constitution, rather than to the interests of politicians. His worry is that the unwillingness of some of the  most  senior military echelons  to speak out against the growing demands of the current administration is either because they are fearful of something....or they agree.

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Stephen Barden speaks to a post graduate student in Norway who, by speaking truth to power, managed to get her university in Stavanger to change a core policy. 

What has this to do with business and management? 

Everything. 

Listen carefully and it becomes clear what leaders and managers need to learn about the generation that will be running things in the next decade or so.  

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In this first episode of a new season of the Power of Balance - focusing on Speakers of Truth to Power - Stephen Barden tells the story of Harold Strachan, a man who sacrificed all but his life when he spoke truth to the power of the Apartheid regime in South Africa. 

Stephen also invites listeners to submit their own suggestions of Truth Speakers - ordinary people who spoke up to power for the greater good.

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Stephen Barden turns his "Wherefore" spotlight on the European Union to ask: Where does the EU see its highest value in its world? Can that "Wherefore" carry it through the inevitable turmoil of next decade - or is it time to change, before it does it and its members real damage?

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In the second in the series "Wherefore Art Thou", Stephen Barden argues that if  human beings need to have a balance of meaning and value with their world, then organizations certainly do. 
 

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Stephen Barden suggests that before we ask ourselves why? - to give us purpose - we could be asking "wherefore?" What is that place where we and our world value one another at the deepest level? And how is that question practical - let alone invaluable-  in today's world? 

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