March 19, 2024
— Conversation Starter: Native Americans on Race
What is your familiarity with the terms, "blood quantum" and "one-drop rule?"
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March 5, 2024
— How We Learned About Redlining
We took the Antiracist Style Indicator (ASI) when we first began writing The Business of Race in June 2020. We didn’t know what we didn’t know. So we took a first step and then another step. Then another. Shortly into our journey, those steps led us to the ASI. And learning about redlining. The origins […]
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March 4, 2024
— Respecting What You Don’t Know
Invest 15 minutes in advancing your educational journey.
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May 17, 2022
— Shared Context: The Chinese Exclusion Act
As organizational development consultants we know how failing to name what needs naming derails any business endeavor. That’s a certain outcome if euphemisms are applied to race talk and race work. In your business spaces we encourage you to use direct, constructive language to name what must be named, without shaming or blaming. Shared context […]
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May 6, 2022
— Engaging Truthfully with Our Shared History
How often have we stumbled our way through a new project with cross-functional team members who use their own siloed jargon or have no context for what has come before? In business, when developing a new product, implementing new systems, or creating alignment around a marketing or investment strategy, you will get nowhere without a […]
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February 14, 2022
— Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats in Constructive Race Talk
Thinking About How You Think Change readiness, cultural curiosity, empathy, and growth mindset— all skills that will facilitate productive race talk and race work. And there’s one more muscle you’ll want to develop: the ability to think about how you think. SPECTRUM THINKINGWorkplaces do not operate in a dynamic of polarized extremes: Black or White, […]
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February 14, 2022
— Inherent to All Growth is the Ability to Fail Well
An Open Letter to ABC News President Kim Godwin regarding her decision to suspend The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg.
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