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    The Power of Balance

    We have been sold a myth: that good, successful leaders are fiercely competitive battlers. The aggressive combative leaders we have been taught to admire actually hold a deep seated anxiety that they and their world have a profoundly unbalanced power relationship. That their world is an actual or potential threat. Drawing from his book “How successful leaders do business with their world”, as well as conversations with top leaders, author and coach-mentor Stephen Barden argues that truly successful leaders, those who act on behalf of their entire constituencies, have learned that they and their worlds are partners with a manageable power balance. That their power lies in that balance. (Theme music: “Celtic Spirit” by Julius H. from Pixabay)

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    EP.20 The Balancing Act Jul 14, 2026
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    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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    https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenbarden/


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    The Power of Tenderness Dec 28, 2025
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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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    HOW WE OUTSOURCE OUR POWER Sep 19, 2025
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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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    Speakers of Truth to Power: Lt. General (retired) Ben Hodges Aug 12, 2025
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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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    Speakers of Truth to Power: Razan Jun 25, 2025
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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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    Speakers of Truth to Power: Harold Strachan May 18, 2025
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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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    Fearful Power Apr 08, 2025
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    Wherefore Art Thou - The EU Feb 23, 2025
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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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    Wherefore Art Thou - the Organization Jan 13, 2025
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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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    Wherefore Art Thou - not the why but the wherefore Nov 28, 2024
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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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    or
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenbarden/


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