May 2, 2023
Has our pursuit of professionalism usurped our innate
social abilities to work collectively and creatively for the
greater good? Samantha Slade, author, social designer and
cultural anthropologist, believes so and is working with
organisations and teams to help them rebalance their leadership
paradigms and flatten their hierarchies. While this is not a
‘perfect or easy journey’, Sam taps into what she sees as our core
human instincts of care and togetherness that have been smothered
by corporate structures. Making her work both hopeful and
insightful is the way it braids the three strands of past, present
and future paradigms into a new way of leading, teaming and
performing.
Shownotes
See more at: http://www.zoerouth.com/podcast/leadership-paradigm-sam-slade
Key moments
3:13 An amazing origin story - revolution and kidnapping!
10:10 Deep change is required to get horizontal
12:20 Our innate abilities - we know how to be together
14:00 Straddling two leadership paradigms
16:10 Join us in Amplifiers Academy
18:00 Non-hierarchical gains
19:50 Understanding leadership status
23:00 Equity and fairness - from meetings to money
28:00 The compensation conversation
29:20 Fairness is not equal
32:10 Individual versus collective focus
33:40 Unpacking the power dynamic
36:50 Consent-based decision making
38:20 How to enable a paradigm shift
42:00 Why go horizontal?
45:10 Where to start
48:10 Zoe’s wrap up