Tag: Toxic Environment

Recruitthebest Daily Digest- Facing Your Reality

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

Your reality is your own reality. You are the only one who can change it.

If you like your reality, live it. If you do not like your reality, do something about it.

Don’t just talk about it. Do something about it.

‘Machines wear down and die. Living systems, if they learn and adapt, do not.’

‘A healthy living system is an intelligent learner. It can adapt and survive even though its environment is moving toward increasing disorder. But it must be actively engaged and aware, never losing focus on its environment. Failing to pay attention and adapt is a prescription for death.’

‘Sane leadership is the commitment to create the conditions for the finest human capacities- generosity, creativity, kindness- to blossom, protected from the external environment. It is the deep knowing that, even in the most dire circumstances, more becomes possible engage together with compassion and discernment, self-determining their best way forward.’

‘Once a system has tipped, it cannot reverse back to its former state. We need to learn to live with it, to adapt. And this is not always possible.’

‘A Warrior for the Human Spirit is a decent human being willing to serve an inhumane, indecent time.’

Source:

Margaret J. Wheatney (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