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On The Balcony

On The Balcony

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 On The Balcony is a podcast for change agents, executives and people who care about developing others. In this kick-off season Michael Koehler and his guests examine Ronald Heifetz’s landmark book: “Leadership Without Easy Answers,” the framework behind the most inspiring leadership class at Harvard University. The show offers powerful reflections and live coaching on today’s most pressing challenges. Learn more about Michael and his work at www.konu.orgCopyright 2026 KONU マネジメント マネジメント・リーダーシップ 哲学 社会科学 経済学
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  • Dr. Hugh O'Doherty: Who Are We Without the Enemy?

    Dr. Hugh O'Doherty: Who Are We Without the Enemy?
    2026/03/10
    Join us for What Stayed, a live Season Two gathering. March 31 · Virtual · Free · Limited spots · konu.org/eventsAs we arrive at the final conversation of Season Two, we turn to one of the deepest questions that has quietly threaded through the entire series: what happens when the conflicts we face are not simply disagreements, but conflicts about identity?In this episode, Michael Koehler sits down with Dr. Hugh O'Doherty, longtime teacher of Adaptive Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and a practitioner of peacebuilding shaped by his experience growing up during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.Hugh's life unfolded inside a history of deep division, between Protestant unionists who identified with Britain and Catholic nationalists who identified with Ireland. The Good Friday Agreement brought an end to most large-scale violence in 1998, but the deeper work of peacebuilding, identity, grief, history, and trust, continues.Drawing on decades of work in conflict resolution, Hugh reflects on what exercising leadership looks like when people are asked to engage across seemingly unbridgeable divides. At the heart of the conversation lies a profound paradox: the very identities we cling to in order to know who we are can become the barriers that keep us trapped.Toward the end of the episode, Hugh shares a reading from Prior Unity, a reflection suggesting something radical. Beneath our divisions, unity is not something we must create. It may already be true.What You'll Explore in This EpisodeGrowing Up Inside Conflict: Hugh shares what it meant to grow up in Northern Ireland during decades of violence, where identity was shaped early and reinforced daily, in schools, communities, and public rituals. These early experiences formed the backdrop for his lifelong search to understand the roots of violence.Learning to Sit in the Fire: Working in early peace and reconciliation efforts, Hugh describes the experience of bringing people from opposing sides of the conflict into dialogue, and discovering how little preparation there was for what happens when the "other" is truly encountered. One of the most important capacities he developed was not intellectual. It was the ability to remain in the heat of conflict without fleeing from it.The Paradox of Identity: A turning point came when Hugh realized something unsettling: we often need the other as an enemy in order to know who we are. Letting go of that structure is not simply a change in opinion. It is a loss of identity. Adaptive leadership offers a way of understanding this. People do not resist change. They resist loss.Peace Agreements and Adaptive Work: Hugh reflects on the limits of traditional peace agreements. While they can stop violence, they often leave the deeper adaptive work untouched. Real reconciliation requires something much harder: helping people see how they themselves are participating in the very systems that keep conflict alive.The Inner Work of Peacebuilding: Over time, Hugh came to see that the work of peacebuilding is inseparable from inner work. The divisions we see in the world mirror divisions we carry within ourselves. The journey toward peace is therefore both political and deeply personal.Prior Unity: In the closing moments of the conversation, Hugh shares a reading that has shaped his own path: the idea that beneath our identities and divisions, the world is already a unity. Not a unity we must build, but one we may awaken to.Quotes from This Episode"I learned to sit in the fire." — Dr. Hugh O'Doherty"The more I kept him as the other, the more I realized I was keeping myself imprisoned." — Dr. Hugh O'Doherty"We need the other as enemy in order to know who we are." — Dr. Hugh O'Doherty"People don't resist change. They resist loss." — Dr. Hugh O'Doherty"The world is a prior unity. It is not that there is a unity yet to be established which you must seek for and work on. Unity is so." — Adi Da Samraj, quotes by Dr. Hugh O'DohertyLinks & ResourcesLectures by Hugh O’Doherty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0I1yMElyFAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLlnwEUKxMQReading Shared in This Episode Adi Da Samraj. Prior Unity: The Basis for a New Human Civilization. Middletown, CA: The Adi Da Foundation Press, 2015.In this short philosophical work, Adi Da argues that humanity's deepest conflicts arise from the assumption of separateness. The book proposes a different starting point: the recognition that the world is already a prior unity, and that transformation begins with awakening to that reality.About Dr. Hugh O'DohertyDr. Hugh O'Doherty is an adjunct lecturer who has taught leadership and conflict resolution at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, and the University of Maryland. Raised in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, his work has focused on peacebuilding and dialogue across deep identity divides.He directed the Ireland–US Public Leadership Program for emerging practitioners from ...
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    43 分
  • Bill Adams & Bob Anderson: The Next Stage of Leadership

    Bill Adams & Bob Anderson: The Next Stage of Leadership
    2026/02/25
    Join us for What Stayed, a live Season Two gathering.March 31 · Virtual · Free · Limited spots · konu.org/eventsThere are many leadership assessments in the world. Most measure competencies — skills, behaviors, strengths, and gaps. The Leadership Circle begins from a different starting point. It integrates leadership theory, systems thinking, and adult development into a single model that connects behavior to the structure of mind beneath it.In this episode, Michael Koehler and his colleague Judit Teichert sit down with Bill Adams and Bob Anderson — co-founders of The Leadership Circle, long-time pioneers in leadership development, and authors of Scaling Leadership and Mastering Leadership.This conversation is less an explanation of a model and more a reflection on its evolution. Bill and Bob revisit the foundational distinction between reactive and creative leadership, share personal moments of reckoning with their own patterns, and explore what happens when even creative leadership begins to feel insufficient for the scale of today’s adaptive challenges.If reactive leadership is driven by managed anxiety, and creative leadership introduces vision and choice, what comes next?Bill and Bob suggest that the next stage may require something more relational than individual brilliance — a shift toward collective intelligence, deeper self-awareness, and leadership informed not by separateness, but by unity.What You’ll Explore in This EpisodeReactive to CreativeHow strengths, when run reactively, become liabilities. Why development begins when we can see our patterns rather than be run by them. And why reactive leadership is less a comfort zone and more managed anxiety.When Growth Hits a CeilingA powerful story of a CEO who unknowingly capped his organization’s growth — and what changed when he realized he was up against himself.Adaptive challenges cannot be solved from within the very structure that created them.Scaling LeadershipDrawing on over a million survey comments, Bill and Bob describe the central shift in effective leadership: from leading through individual capability to developing people and building collective capacity.Leadership scales when development becomes shared work.The Next StageBob describes what he calls integral leadership — leadership grounded in the presumption, if not the direct realization, of the inherent unity of all things.If our current paradigm is built on separateness, what might leadership look like if it were grounded in unity instead?This episode does not offer easy answers. It invites deeper questions:How do we lead in the unknown?How do we slow down when urgency tempts us to push harder?What if the future emerges not from force — but from listening?Quotes from This Episode“Strengths run reactively have liabilities.”— Bob Anderson“Reactive leadership isn’t a comfort zone. It’s managed anxiety.”— Bob Anderson“I am my own project for life. And it’s a big project.”— Bill Adams“If we want things to change, I have to do most of the changing.”— Bill Adams“Are we going to clean this up neatly? The deep recesses of racism that have been in our lineage for millennia? Patriarchy, violence, war, exploitation? We’re going to clean that up neatly? No. It’s going to be a mess.”— Bob Anderson“Integral leadership is founded on the presumption — if not the direct realization — of the inherent unity of all things.”— Bob AndersonLinks & ResourcesThe Leadership Circlehttps://leadershipcircle.com/YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@TheLeadershipCircleDeep Connect Serieshttps://leadershipcircle.com/deep-connect-series/The Future of Leadership is Integral Informed by Unity White Paperhttps://leadershipcircle.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Future-of-Leadership-Integral-In-formed-by-Unity.pdfUnity Academyhttps://leadershipcircle.com/leadership-coach-certifications/unity-academy/Scaling LeadershipScaling Leadership: Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter MostRobert J. Anderson & William A. Adams (2019)Mastering LeadershipMastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business ResultsRobert J. Anderson & William A. Adams (2015)About the GuestsBill Adams is CEO of Full Circle Group and The Leadership Circle, a serial entrepreneur and executive advisor who has worked with CEOs and senior teams across Fortune 500 companies and global organizations.Bob Anderson is Founder and Chairman of The Leadership Circle and co-creator of the Leadership Circle Profile™, integrating adult development, systems thinking, and leadership theory into a comprehensive developmental framework.Continue the ConversationNew episodes of On the Balcony drop every two weeks.Receive reflections and additional resources at:konu.org/balconyMentioned in this episode:What Stayed? A Post-Season Gathering for Listeners.If something from this season followed you home—a ...
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    56 分
  • Dr. Matthias Birk: Mindfulness Beyond Self-Optimization

    Dr. Matthias Birk: Mindfulness Beyond Self-Optimization
    2026/02/12

    Join us for What Stayed, a live Season Two gathering. March 31 · Virtual · Free · Limited spots · konu.org/events

    Mindfulness has become respectable.

    It improves focus. It reduces stress. It helps leaders perform under pressure.

    But what if mindfulness isn't primarily about performance?

    In this episode of On the Balcony, Michael Koehler sits down with Dr. Matthias Birk—organizational psychologist, executive coach, former Global Head of Coaching & Advisory at Goldman Sachs, Global Director of Partner Development at White & Case, Zen teacher, and founder of Self-Transcendent Leadership.

    What unfolds is not a conversation about mindfulness as a productivity tool.

    It's a conversation about perspective.

    Matthias distinguishes between what he calls within-paradigm mindfulness—using meditation to cope more skillfully within the identity you already inhabit—and beyond-paradigm mindfulness, which loosens that identity altogether.

    One reduces suffering within the game. The other questions the game itself.

    At the heart of the episode is a passage from Rainer Maria Rilke:

    Be forever dead in Eurydice, singingly rise, praisingly rise, back into pure relation. Here, among the vanishing, be—in the realm of demise. Be the pulsating glass, shattered yet of its own vibration. Be—and yet know the non-being's ground, The infinite bottom of your innermost sound. So that you might complete it—this one only time.

    For Matthias, meditation isn't an accessory to leadership. It's not like playing golf. It's about being fully alive in the here and now—and discovering what remains when achievement, anxiety, and identity begin to soften.

    What You'll Explore in This Episode

    Meditation before it was fashionable Matthias began practicing Zen as a teenager, long before mindfulness entered corporate vocabulary.

    Within-paradigm vs. beyond-paradigm mindfulness Mindfulness can help you manage stress inside demanding roles. But it can also invite you to question who you are beyond those roles.

    Achievement and insecurity From McKinsey to Goldman Sachs to global leadership, Matthias reflects candidly on ambition and belonging—and how meditation shifted his relationship to that inner voice.

    Self-transcendence Drawing on Abraham Maslow's later work, Matthias explores what it means to move beyond ego-centered striving toward expression, service, and alignment with something larger.

    Leadership as expression What if leadership isn't about constructing a persona—but about listening deeply enough to express what's already there, this one only time?

    Quotes from This Episode

    "Meditation is not a hobby. It's not like playing golf. It's not something you do on the side. It is about being fully alive in the here and now." — Dr. Matthias Birk

    "If you don't brush your teeth, they're going to rot. If you don't brush your mind, it's going to come up with not great stuff." — Dr. Matthias Birk

    "The real benefit of mindfulness is that you can live a free life." — Dr. Matthias Birk

    "One of the saddest things is to live a life and never hear your innermost sound." — Dr. Matthias Birk

    Links & Resources

    Self-Transcendent Leadership — Dr. Matthias Birk https://www.self-transcendent.com/

    Publications & Articles by Dr. Matthias Birk https://www.matthiasbirk.com/publications

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    30 分
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