The following is a link to an interview I had with Nicholas Beecroft on April 10, 2011, about my new book, which will be published in June/July 2011. If you would like to review the book or provide an endorsement please contact me: richard@valuescentre.com.
The following is a link to a 90 minute interview I had on April 10th, 2011, with Nicholas Beecroft, about my new book Love, Fear and the Destiny of Nations.
Here is the Foreword to my new book, Love Fear and the Destiny of Nations: Volume 1 -- The Impact of the Evolution of Human Consciousness on World Affairs.
I will be editing the text of the whole book in the coming weeks. If you are interested in providing me with comments and/or an endorsement please contact me at richard@valuescentre.com and I will provide you with a copy.
Here is a link to the video stream of my presentation at Royal Roads University in Victoria BC, Canada on January 12, 2012.The presentation includes some slides from my new book Love, Fear and the Destiny of Nations: The Impact of the Evolution of Human Consciousness on World Affairs (Volume 1), to be released around March or April of this year.
The introduction to the eveining starts 6 minutes into the video. My speech starts after 13 minutes. Questions start after 1:21 minutes. You can download a copy of the slides from the following website:
This interview now has Spanish subtitles.
To get Spanish sub-titles start the video and then they will appear.
The principal value that governs the quality of democracy is trust. There are seven other values that must be in place before people will trust each other and their government. Each value is dependent on the adoption and practice of the previous value. The sequence of values that dictate the quality of democracy are as follows: freedom, equality, accountability, justice, fairness, openness and transparency. Once all these values are in place then trust can be found. Trust is the value that enables nations to become internally cohesive.
Freedom: One of the two fundamental values on which democracy is based is freedom—the freedom to voice your opinions and the freedom to vote for a candidate of your choice to represent you in a local or national election. For freedom to be fully embodied, anyone in a given community must be able to put themselves forward for election.
Equality: The second fundamental value on which democracy is based is equality—the recognition that, if you have the right to freedom and everything that comes with that right, then all others who live in the same community should have the same rights as well. No individual or group should be marginalized or treated differently from all other groups.
Accountability: This naturally leads to the value of accountability—the practice of responsible freedom. If everyone agrees that freedom and equality are important, then everyone must take responsibility and accountability for making sure that all their actions are in support of these values. This includes those who are elected as representatives of the people, those in position of public authority and the population themselves. Furthermore those who serve at the pleasure of the people must be fully accountable to the people who elected them for how they discharge their public responsibilities.
Justice: This naturally leads to the value of justice—the process that assures that people take accountability for their actions. No one should be above the law. An independent judiciary guarantees that those in power will be held to account if they commit any wrongdoings. In authoritarian regimes leaders are not held accountable for their actions and dispel justice as they see fit. In a democracy everyone is equal before the law.
Fairness: This naturally leads to the value of fairness—the practice of being accountable before the law for living the value of equality. Justice is one of the ways of guaranteeing fairness. Unfairness arises when people are not held accountable for ensuring that their actions support the value of equality. Fairness requires that there is no discrimination in any community against persons of different races, religions, political affiliations, ages, genders and sexual preferences.
Openness: This naturally leads to the value of openness—the process by which fairness can be guaranteed. Openness requires that those in authority fully disclose their motivations in making decisions. Motivations must be disclosed for openness to be lived. Decisions cannot be made behind closed doors in an open society.
Transparency: This naturally leads to the value of transparency—the demonstration of openness and the disclosure of all documents and materials that indicate how decisions have been made. The best way to ensure transparency is to make sure that every aspect of the process by which decisions are made is open to public view. Nothing must be hidden for transparency to be lived.
Only when the values of freedom, equality, accountability, justice, fairness, openness and transparency are collectively embodied in the systems processes and policies of governance and individually embodied in the elected representatives and those in authority can trust be established and democracy be regarded as mature.
Please help me with my research for my new book, Love, Fear and the Destiny of Nations, by taking this short survey (available in multiple languages) and then passing on the link to as many people as possible in your network.
Access: http://survey.valuescentre.com/ctt/
User Name: democracy
Password: values
The principal value that governs the quality of democracy is trust. There are seven other values that must be in place before people will trust each other and their government. Each value is dependent on the adoption and practice of the previous value. The sequence of values that dictate the quality of democracy are as follows: freedom, equality, accountability, justice, fairness, openness and transparency. Once all these values are in place then trust can be found. Trust is the value that enables nations to become internally cohesive. This survey asks you to score how well your nation is doing with regard to the implementation of these values.
For more information and definitions of the seven values follow this link:
http://richardbarrett.posterous.com/stages-in-the-evolution-of-democracy-16264
Here is a 53 minute video I did recently for Conscious TV in the UK.
I talk about my life, my soul, my work, and The New Leadership Paradigm.
Follow the link and then look for the tab marked "Evolution."
This short interview by Nick Williams focuses on the message that I want to bring to the world and the influence that my soul has had on my life.
Click here to watch the interview.
New Certificate Targets Evolution of Values-Based Leadership in Business
For immediate release – July 5, 2011
Victoria, B.C. – Royal Roads University will launch a new graduate certificate in values-based leadership this fall. The certificate addresses a growing opportunity in the marketplace to provide learning and practical resources for organizational leaders to align actions and decisions with their values and those of society.
“Corporate Social Responsibility has been a buzz word for years now in business,” says Marilyn Taylor, academic lead for this certificate being delivered jointly by the Institute for Values-Based Leadership, founded on the ground-breaking work of the Todd Thomas Institute, and the Centre for Applied Leadership and Management at Royal Roads University. “We believe that this certificate will provide corporate executives with the values-based understanding and tools they need to run a 21st century organization.”
Among the other professors enlisted to facilitate this innovative certificate will be Richard Barrett, an acknowledged international figure in this new leadership paradigm who is an author and the founder of the Barrett Values Centre.
Also teaching in the program is Mark Fulton, a leadership educator and senior consultant with Intersol, a consultancy that provides team-based competency in organizations. Both have significant experience in supporting leaders around the world in building values-based organizations.
“Organizational culture has become the new frontier of competitive advantage,” Barrett says. “From businesses to nation states across more than 60 countries, we’ve seen how a dialogue about values can change the paradigm of leadership. Cultural transformation begins with the personal transformation of the leaders. In order to manage the change you have to measure it. This is the reason I developed the Cultural Transformation Tools (CTT).”
The new graduate certificate in values-based leadership provides nine graduate credits and professional certification in the use of the Cultural Transformation Tools. The credits from this certificate can be used toward electives in other Royal Roads programs such as nine credits towards a master’s in interdisciplinary studies, six credits towards a master’s in business administration (MBA), or three credits towards the master’s in leadership.
“We must recognize that decisions we make individually, and in our organizations and governments, have repercussions around the globe,” Barrett says. “We must not be afraid to take our highest values to work. It is time for each of us to engage fully in transforming the values of business.”
Applicants who do not have the formal academic education to qualify for admission may be assessed on the basis of their prior learning and leadership experience in accordance with the Royal Roads innovative Flexible Admission Policy.
Royal Roads University was established by the Province of British Columbia in 1995 specifically to deliver quality applied and professional programs to advance professionals in the workplace. The university blends online and on-campus learning with current, real-world relevance for doctorate, graduate and undergraduate degrees, certificates, diplomas, executive and custom education.
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Communications Officer, Phil Saunders
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Richard Barrett is the Founder and Chairman of the Barrett Values Centre. He is an internationally recognized author, consultant and keynote speaker on values-based leadership and culture in business and society.
He is a visiting lecturer at the Consulting and Coaching for Change, leadership course run jointly by HEC Executive Education in Paris and the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Royal Roads University, Institute for Values-based Leadership.
Richard is the creator of the New Leadership Paradigm learning system and the internationally acclaimed Cultural Transformation Tools®, which have been used to support more than 3,000 organizations and 3,000 leaders on their transformational journeys, in more than fifty countries. Richard is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, and former Values Coordinator at the World Bank.
In addition to his work in the field of personal and organizational transformation, Richard is spearheading the Barrett Value Centre’s focus on cultural transformation in nations.
For more information go to www.richardbarrett.net
