You can teach someone with basic smarts to be smarter; you can't teach cultural fit or personality. But you also want someone who has a passion to win; someone that is all in.
Mellody HobsonRead
Black women have a kind of advantage over white women in the workplace. They go in prepared to face some discrimination, so when it happens, they aren't shocked.
Interpretation
Black women are often better prepared for workplace discrimination than white women, allowing them to handle it more effectively.
Mellody Hobson's quote highlights the unique challenges faced by Black women in the workplace. It suggests that their experiences with discrimination equip them with the resilience and preparedness to confront such biases without being taken off guard. This can be seen as a form of strength, as they navigate a work environment that may not always be equitable.
In practice
During a womenβs leadership conference, to emphasize the unique strengths Black women bring to their roles.
You can teach someone with basic smarts to be smarter; you can't teach cultural fit or personality. But you also want someone who has a passion to win; someone that is all in.
Observe your environment. Invite people into your life that don't look like you or think like you
I can't tell you how many resumes we get from business schools across the country from black women and black men and Hispanic women, men, etcetera, who say I'm interested in working for your company because they can see someone at the top who looks like them.
The way I go about it is that we should all be inviting people into our lives who don't look like us, speak like us and don't come from where we come from.
Now, race is one of those topics in America that makes people extraordinarily uncomfortable. You bring it up at a dinner party or in a workplace environment, it is literally the conversational equivalent of touching the third rail.
I was desperate to understand money. Not to make it, to understand it. I wanted to know how it worked, and I wanted to know so that I would have enough and would be able to make good financial decisions. That led me to Ariel.
To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.
Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?
People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'
Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.
Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.
I actually lost both my legs. I can walk because I got really good health care.
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