No Opting Out - The Realities of Politics in the workplace

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

Management, Workplace Culture, Science, Work, Business, Culture, Social Sciences

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Does political discourse have a place in the workplace? What is going on Basecamp? A truly dazzling discussion with Megan Reitz, Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Ashridge Executive Education – part of Hult International Business School. I got in touch with Megan when I saw her articles about Basecamp, Coinbase and political activism at work. Along the way we discuss Jonathan Haidt and whether Gen Z’s are softer than previous generations. I reference a discussion between Jonathan Haidt and the very first guest of the podcast Richard Reeves. Haidt’s book The Coddling of the American Mind is an intoxicating spell. It tells you really clearly why young people are softer now than previous generations (and that argument would be all the better if it were true).

Firstly, in depth coverage of the specifics of the Basecamp issue.

Then, Megan’s articles: what is your response to employee activism? Part two

Why employee activism needs to feature in your HR strategy

The Douglas Adams quote: Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

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0:00.0	If you run a restaurant in London, you need to know about Square.
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0:22.0	Square Up Europe Limited is authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic
0:26.1	Money Regulations 2011.
0:27.7	Registered reference number 900846. This is Eat Sleep Work Repeat, a podcast about making work better.
0:44.0	Hello, hello, I'm Bruce Dasely.
0:46.0	Thank you for listening.
0:48.0	And I'm always grateful for your attention here.
0:51.0	We've had some good episodes over the last few weeks.
0:53.4	So if you do enjoy this, I would invite you to go and check out maybe the episode about
0:59.1	diversity and inclusion with Kim Scott or maybe the episode with Scott
1:04.2	Scott Galloway where he talked about his reflections on how works going to change.
1:09.0	Last week's episode was also a real hit with people and that was going behind the scenes at
1:15.4	Amazon. The idea of single threaded leadership I thought was a really
1:21.0	compelling one just really interesting and in fact one of my friends texted me saying he'd
1:26.8	found some of the other things that Amazon did intriguing as well.
1:30.0	It landed on the day that Amazon had wriggled out of a colossal tax bill and someone
1:36.3	texted me or tweeted me saying, oh you've missed the elephant in the room in their tax bill.
1:40.9	Look, I get the fact that corporately these now a system where
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