It is great to make progress and many of us want to win through that progress. However, just because you have made progress and seem to be ahead never means that your work is done or you should begin to become complacent.
In this clip a losing team scores a winning 3 points with only 0.6 seconds left in the game, all while the other team is celebrating their victory. See the priceless expression on the Coach’s face as it turns from celebration to disbelief.
Never celebrate too soon!
The first step in Diversity… is realizing that you barely know S*(% about Diversity.
The second step… admitting, openly, that you barely know S*(% about Diversity!
Diversity is more than race. It is more than Inclusion efforts. It goes deeper than a statistic. It doesn’t stop when you have a Chief Diversity Officer. You have not reached success when you have met the right mix of workforce variety. Reached the correct percentage of suppliers for your construction project or vendor partners.
Diversity is about building an understanding of who we are as people.
It is about respecting the fact that our common sense is common to none of us.
It is about looking past the stereotypes and our own perceptions to admit that:
“Look, I know nothing about you but I realize that I may need to. For the good of me, for the good of you, for the good of my work and those children of ours that will come after us… I know that I need to sit down and realize…
that just because we are different doesn’t mean we are not the same.”
The only way you can step past the stereotype is if you are willing to step into the conversation!
Tell me… are you willing to talk – about the S*(% you don’t know?
Too often you get so excited about throwing things out the window in order to get out through the front door that you don’t realize how much of a mess you left others or yourself to clean up.
To those that got out quick on Friday… welcome back to the mess you created.
It’s Monday!!!
I recently came across this story of Allan Hill, a man who legally lives inside Detroit city’s abandoned Packard Auto Plant for the last 7 years. The owner has given him his blessing so long as Hill works as a custodian of the property.
While the work he does in his retirement is vastly different from what many of us would envision, Hill has built a surprising comfort for his caretaker situation. While not in perfect facilities for living, he amazingly has power, Internet access, a welding setup, and a small kitchen and maintains a webcam.
The short documentary is part of the series This Must Be The Place. Maybe when I head through Detroit this week I will stop by and say hello. We’ll see.
