Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the need to challenge and move past outdated ideas and practices that hinder equal access for everyone.
Frances Hesselbein encourages individuals and organizations to reevaluate and discard old assumptions and practices that may create obstacles to equality. By doing so, we can foster a more inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to participate equally, regardless of their background or circumstances.
In practice
In a discussion about workplace diversity, one might say, 'As Frances Hesselbein suggests, we must move beyond the old assumptions about hiring practices.'
When people are speaking, they require our undivided attention. We focus on them; we listen very carefully. We listen to the spoken words and the unspoken messages. This means looking directly at the person, eyes connected; we forget we have a watch, just focusing for that moment on that person.
It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.
Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.
The real leader redefines or defines the mission in a very powerful way so that people understand it; it permeates the organization.
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
Social-sector organizations have to be better managed than for-profit organizations... because they have no margin of error.
In the developing world, most people don't yet live in big well-run cities. Given the chance to move to one, hundreds of millions of people would go there to get a job, get an education for their children, and live in a place that is clean, safe, and healthy.
If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
One needs determination to bring in changes in the lives of Devadasis. I would approach them wearing pants and t-shirt and without a bindi, they would chase me away. When I narrated the experience to my father, he told me to don traditional wear and dress like them. After bringing in changes in my dressing style, the Devadasis welcomed me.
Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
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