Equity issues - women and girls

When you’re at the beginning, don’t obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there

Dan Heath • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

The company prides itself on its role as tenacious change agent, leveraging creative thinking to ask “what if?” and “why not?” to challenge the status quo.

Expectations rob people of the creativity they need for out-of-the-box thinking. They also set limits on what is possible, so people avoid looking for more innovative solutions.

Challenging team members to think without the blinders and constraints of expectations sometimes unleashes a flood of new ideas.

After fielding the complaints and moans an “i

“The old is dead, and I don’t know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there’s something that can come out of experimentation. It’s somewhat unsettling, but it’s a hopeful thing in a way. I’ve been here before, lots of times.”

RIP filmmaker and artist David Lynch.

Selfish is easy.

Short term is easy.

Complacent is easy.

Turning our head and ignoring the problem is easy.

Going along to get along is easy.

But easy isn’t the point.

Better is.

Challenging the status quo is difficult, and worth it.

• Seth Godin

Like a small boat on the ocean
Sending big waves into motion
Like how a single word
Can make a heart open
I might only have one match
But I can make an explosion

• Rachel Platten

Situations have no solution, they’re not problems, they’re simply the way it is.

Problems are distinguished by the fact that they have solutions. But that doesn’t mean that the solution is obvious, easy or convenient.

If the problem is important enough, we should pick the best available solution, not turn it into a situation.

• Seth Godin

What got us to where we are isn’t going to get us where we need to go now.

“The knee-jerk reaction is that women don’t bring in as much money as the men and if they did, they wouldn’t be second-class citizens. Yet consider a counter-narrative: during the 55-year history of the sport’s modern era, if women had received the same exposure and investment as men and didn’t have to confront countless barriers and aggressions, m

Max Roser highlighted three sentences that seem like they can’t all be true: “The world is much better. The world is awful. The world can be much better.” But of course, they are. And they continue to be.