Matthew Barzun, THE POWER OF GIVING AWAY POWER: How the Best Leaders Learn to Let Go

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Former Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Sweden Matthew Barzun joins Zibby to talk about his latest book, The Power of Giving Away Power, and how the best leaders are often the ones who don't lord their power over others. Matthew shares how his experience with the 2008 Obama presidential campaign and his interactions with Queen Elizabeth sparked his research, as well as how their leadership style often inspires their supporters to be more willing to volunteer than accept payment for their efforts.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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0:36.9	Hi. Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show.
0:40.6	If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to
0:45.6	have Kids. Here's a little snippet by one of the authors from the anthology. My name is Alyssa
0:51.5	Friedland and I'm thrilled to have contributed to moms don't have time to have kids.
0:56.9	My essay is called I Diet, Therefore I Am.
1:00.2	And what I really don't have time for is binge watching TV.
1:04.0	Matthew Barzan is the author of The Power of Giving Away Power, how the best leaders learn to let go.
1:10.6	Matthew has always been fascinated about
1:12.2	how we can stand out and fit in at the same time. He helped countries do both when he served as
1:17.1	U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom and to Sweden. He helped citizens do both as national finance
1:22.2	chair for Barack Obama by pioneering new ways for people to have a stronger voice in politics.
1:27.3	And he helped
1:28.3	tech consumers do both as an entrepreneur when he helped start CNET networks in the early 90s.
1:33.8	Barzan was raised on the East Coast, started his career on the West Coast, and settled in the middle
1:37.8	in Louisville, Kentucky with his wife, Brooke, and their three children. Welcome, Matthew. Thank you so much
1:42.7	for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss the power of giving away power. Thanks for having me. It's my pleasure. How the best leaders learn to let go. I should have said that originally. Well, if I were to redo it, that's what I would say. I would say it at the same time. Oh, well, it's definitely going to hear it in an important form. So you've had the most interesting experiences professionally and personally.
2:05.9	I mean, it's amazing how many leaders you've worked with, how you've been all over the globe,
2:12.2	founding new businesses, like building businesses, finding new ways to do everything.
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