I’m sure they didn’t mean to. You should try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. They were just trying to help. These phrases can often make it seem like you are the bad guy when it comes to holding people accountable for what they do. More and more it seems like those in… Read the full article »
Tea & Sympathy
Human Rights Cannot Be Earned
For most of my twenties, I fell into a lie. Most people, I am told, who find themselves ‘othered’ in our society find themselves tied up in this lie in one way or another. It keeps extraordinary people tied into fear, and promises an escape by pointing to a jail cell. The lie? That Equality… Read the full article »
How to Create a Paper Trail
We live in a world of he said / she said, where people will do anything to avoid taking responsibility for their actions and might make promises they don’t really intend to keep. Short of wearing a body camera, [something I’m not above, but has been known to wreck an outfit] creating a paper trail… Read the full article »
Campaigns Not Battles
“That was one battle we had to fight.” My heart always sinks a bit when I hear this phrase. Growing up I usually heard it from the mothers of children with disabilities, the subtext being that there was a string of fights to simply get their children what most kids were entitled to simply by… Read the full article »
It’s Never Just One Thing: How a Teapot Becomes a Tempest
Let’s say you’re a new hire at a bank. Things are going great, on the whole they seem to like you. There’s just one seem that seems a little bit ‘off.’ Whenever there’s a tea break during a meeting you wind up making the tea. For everyone. On the surface this seems fine. You’re the… Read the full article »
How to Use a Paper Trail in an Email
As most of you know by now, I am a huge believer that a paper trail is the single most useful tool in making change happen. Whether it’s because people have a lot going on (let’s give them the benefit of the doubt here), they themselves are bad at record keeping (most people are), or… Read the full article »
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