Hello hello,
Hope everyone is safe despite the crazy weather across Texas and the Southeast! Snow and ice are unwelcome conditions in those areas – not to mention the danger they are causing!
I can’t really complain here. Still living in semi-quarantine. My 6 year old recently lost a tooth and told me that the tooth fairy was going to bring him $60. HAHA I was tempted to downgrade his usual $1 / tooth to a quarter based on that comment. Then I remembered his skewed sense of numbers – like when he tells me it will take 90 hours for his lunch to heat up in the microwave… This, my friends, is my main source of entertainment these days – send wine!
It would be a tragedy if I didn’t share Part 2 of Brene Brown’s conversation with Aiko Bethea. So, here it is: Brené with Aiko Bethea on Creating Transformative Cultures | Brené Brown (brenebrown.com)
Aiko’s take on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is the best I’ve come across in all my reading/listening. I couldn’t agree more with her delineation of transformational change (at a human level) versus transactional change. At my workplace and companies around the world, there’s a lot of discussions about being an inclusive leader and behaviors of inclusivity. I may have a pessimistic view here, but I don’t think you can teach people these things. I don’t think managers can look at a checklist or other ‘inclusivity tool’ and all of a sudden they can actively listen, care about their employees, amplify under represented opinions/ideas… But, hopefully I’m wrong here because there are so many teams that could accomplish a lot more under the guidance of an inclusive leader.
Be well
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-Jessica