Rushworth Kidder
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Oct 12, 2026
Shane LeaningHOST
What happens when those values meet the daily realities of leading in school? And that's where I wanna spend a little bit of time today.
Shane LeaningHOST
How do we put our values into practice when they seem to pull us in different directions? And there's one question I'd like you to keep in your mind through this episode: what is each value trying to protect? Now, Rushworth Kidder described right versus right dilemmas, situations where there's a legitimate concern on both sides, just like what I described, and that's a really useful way to describe some of the discomfort we experience as leaders.
Shane LeaningHOST
Feeling torn can mean you're noticing several responsibilities at once, and you still need to work out how to respond.
Shane LeaningHOST
In the session I did, I brought together five practical moves.
Julia FeltonHOST
It's being described as somebody else's problem by the person who's actually carrying it.
Julia FeltonHOST
So what is a values conflict? The clearest definition I know comes from W- Rushworth Kidder, who founded the Institute from Global Ethics and wrote a book in 1995 called How Good People Make Tough Choices.
Julia FeltonHOST
And Kidder drew a distinction that every leader ought to be aware of, and it's this: a choice between right or wrong is a temptation, and most of us can handle that temptation pretty well because we know which side we're meant to be on.
Julia FeltonHOST
We want to be on the side of being right.
Dagogo AltraideHOST
In other words, loneliness has thrived and evolved from our increasing individualism.
Dagogo AltraideHOST
Filmmaker David Hoffman speaks to Rushworth Kidder, a man born in 1944.
Dagogo AltraideHOST
His historically massive generation, called the Baby Boomers, would come to maturity in the 1960s and 70s.
Dagogo AltraideHOST
He describes his lived observations of witnessing the dissolving of society.