Hiring the ideal team and focusing on culture are among the most important high impact leadership practices. But in addition to these “people” priorities, successful leaders and organizations also recognize the importance of “systems.” Leaders and organizations that struggle often do so because they lack in their attention to systems thinking. As a result, change …
Tag: equity
New Year Commitment
Every year, numerous organizations come up with their list of words and phrases that deserve to be retired from the public lexicon. When I started my journey to learn about equity and racism, I became aware of a whole new lexicon around race, gender, socio-economic status and so on that I had not fully embraced …
Sometimes winning isn’t
Let’s face it. We all like to win. And we hate to lose. That is because from an early age, we are conditioned to believe winning is good and losing is bad. As a verb, “lose” means to be deprived of something. As an adjective, “losing” refers to suffering or defeat. Of course, we cannot …
The first step is talking about it.
I’m probably the last one person who should proclaim to understand race, equity and bias. I’m a middle-aged white guy, who grew up in a middle-class mostly white neighborhood, went to a middle class mostly white school and most of my acquaintances are middle-class white people. Sure, I have friends who are black, friends who …
FOR Equity?
For the better part of my adult life, I’ve asserted to everyone I encounter that there’s always a gray area. What I am referring to is a belief that there are always multiple “right” answers in nearly every situation. I’ve written about it, I’ve led with it and I’ve tried to live it. However, as …
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