Tag: Vulnerability

Recruitthebest Daily Digest- If You Don’t Like Your Reality

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

Do not pretend to be who you are not. If you don’t like what is happening in your life, take a look at your reality.

Because you get what you pay attention to. ‘Living systems change to preserve themselves.’

‘The first act of life is to create a boundary, a membrane that is the cell’s identity. It defines an inside and an outside, what it it, what it is not.’

‘Life cannot be sustained when the boundary is too rigid. Nor can it generate new capacities and adapt to its environment if the boundary is too open.’

‘Without identity there is no life, no creation, no responsibilities, no continuation, no possibility for evolutionary change. Yet every change is motivated by an attempt to change, to preserve a self.’

‘Embody your faith. Don’t talk about it, walk it. People will notice and respond.’

‘Conversation is the technology. Curiosity, vulnerability, mutual respect give it power.’

‘Curiosity leads to adaptive responses.’

Source:

Margaret J. Wheatley (2023). Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality. Claiming Leadership. Restoring Sanity

Recruitthebest Daily Digest- Workplace Inequality (2)

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

‘The single most important thing men can do to support gender inequality is to reflect on what it means to be a man at work.’

‘This is really the whole point of equality: having employees approach their work in a way that values the contributions, needs, and interests of everyone equally.’

‘Companies that have a culture of equality will be able to outcompete their peers.’

We learn to fit in through an ongoing process of observing and interacting with people at work, something known as socialization.’

‘Comforming to the standard determines how easy it is for you to fit in.’

‘The longer we work in corporate life, the harder it is to challenge our own beliefs of the ‘ideal worker.’

‘The inequality you experience at work doesn’t exist because of you. It exists because of the culture in your workplace. The only way to solve this is to stop denial and learn about the different ways people experience inequality at work.’

‘Not seeing inequality is what keeps it in place.’

‘Equality is an ongoing journey that every leader signs up for when they agree to manage people.’

‘When a leader shows vulnerability, it signals to others it is safe to do the same.’

‘To solve inequality, we need leaders to listen more, think differently, and take action to disrupt the status quo.’

Source:

Michelle P. King (2020). The Fix: Overcome the Invisible Barriers That Are Holding Women Back at Work