The ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast
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How can an organization with values of equity shift away from its own embedded hierarchy? In this conversation, we speak with Robin Cook Roth who was recently the CEO of the UK company, Traidcraft to talk about how he led his organization out of the hierarchy. We discuss how holarchy’s process of self-management, distribution of power, roles, and responsibilities led him to experience a level of freedom and joy in his own work, and how it has helped the company live out its values. We get into some of the spiritual dimensions of this work, and some of what it means to remember and reenchant the organizations where so many people spend so much time.
1:37 - Learn more about Robin Cook Roth
5:25 - What is self-management?
12:51 - Who decides what’s the appropriate distribution of power?
18:10 - Tradecraft's transition to Holacracy
25:00 - Sara Jolena on The Dawn of Everything
30:46 - What is the role of power as it relates to spiritual power displaying itself in an organization?
34:50 - How was it like to give up power?
38:30 -Relinquishing power in the work of decolonization
43:45 - How does Holacracy intersect with suppliers?
52:38 - What are some initial steps and resources to self-management?
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Music Title: Both of Us
Music by: madiRFAN
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Robin Cook Roth
Robin Cook Roth is a former CEO of Trade Craft. A long fair trade activist who greatly enjoys walking pilgrimages and quaker processes. Tradecraft is the original fair trade pioneer in the UK. The movement of radical church-based individuals began by importing goods directly from artisans and growers from 30 developing countries and distributing them directly to shoppers in the UK cutting out the middlemen over 40 years ago. They collaborated with the growers and artisans over the process and over time came to know the needs dreams and inhibitions. They subsequently co-founded the fair trade foundation and helped to establish standards that underpin today’s well recognize fair trademark.
