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This quote emphasizes the need to challenge and move past outdated ideas and practices that hinder equal access for everyone.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.
People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.
She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free.
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
This is a great country, but fortunately for you, it is not perfect. There is much to be done to bring about complete equality. Remove hunger. Bring reality closer to theory and democratic principles.
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