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"The Take Your Daughter To Work Day movement has succeeded. Girls today can enter any professional they choose. They can start their own businesses, advance their careers, and assume leadership roles in their organizations. We have achieved so much.
But our work is not finished. I think we have new work to do.
It is not an option to stand by passively as the first generation of digital native girls comes of age and struggles—feeling isolated, unworthy, under pressure, and filled with doubt.
That is why I propose we update the Take Our Daughters to Work movement with a Take Our Daughters to WORTH Day."
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But our work is not finished. I think we have new work to do.
It is not an option to stand by passively as the first generation of digital native girls comes of age and struggles—feeling isolated, unworthy, under pressure, and filled with doubt.
That is why I propose we update the Take Our Daughters to Work movement with a Take Our Daughters to WORTH Day."
"The premise of this manifesto is, as my millennial friend Jackie put it, 'What if work didn't have to suck?'
What if, instead of accepting a toxic work situation and/or waiting for it to get better, we took personal responsibility to make it better?
What if there were ways to make work more meaningful right where we are, right now?
The good news is, there are career hacks you can use to create meaningful work so it's more like you want it to be. And you don't have to win the lottery to do it."
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What if, instead of accepting a toxic work situation and/or waiting for it to get better, we took personal responsibility to make it better?
What if there were ways to make work more meaningful right where we are, right now?
The good news is, there are career hacks you can use to create meaningful work so it's more like you want it to be. And you don't have to win the lottery to do it."
"My son is wise beyond his years, even if from the outside you might have a different perception.
Below is Payam's full message written on the alphabet board, it took about five minutes for him to spell it out letter by letter:
"I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS AND BEGINS TO SHIFT THEIR PERSPECTIVE TO HAVE MORE BELIEF IN ALL OF HUMANITY."
How many times have we been told not to judge a book by its cover? How often do we fail and completely judge others based on what we think is "normal" or acceptable? How do we know what they are thinking or feeling, if they are not able to tell us in the ways that we are used to? Why do we presume to know their cognitive levels or what they will be capable of in life? Who are we to judge?"
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Below is Payam's full message written on the alphabet board, it took about five minutes for him to spell it out letter by letter:
"I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS AND BEGINS TO SHIFT THEIR PERSPECTIVE TO HAVE MORE BELIEF IN ALL OF HUMANITY."
How many times have we been told not to judge a book by its cover? How often do we fail and completely judge others based on what we think is "normal" or acceptable? How do we know what they are thinking or feeling, if they are not able to tell us in the ways that we are used to? Why do we presume to know their cognitive levels or what they will be capable of in life? Who are we to judge?"
"For us, as business scholars, the world we aspired to help advance wasn't one defined by competing and dividing up markets or the globe, where one's gain comes at the expense of others. Competition exists, and win-lose scenarios abound, but they weren't what captured our imaginations, nor what we believed our world needed more of. What we admired, what inspired us, were the organizations and individuals that went beyond competing to create new frontiers of opportunity, growth, and jobs, where success was not about dividing up an existing, often shrinking pie, but about creating a larger economic pie for all—what we refer to as blue oceans. Blue oceans are less about disruption and more about nondisruptive creation, where one's gain doesn't have to come at the expense of others.
But how do you translate aspiration into action, intention into reality?"
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But how do you translate aspiration into action, intention into reality?"
"It is hard to think of a more flawed theory that has had as much of an impact on organizational life as that of the 'rational man' of neoclassical economics: an unfeeling automaton, driven by analytic assessments of economic utility and the pursuit of self-interest. [...]
But it's not only economists who retreat to abstraction and analytics for comfort—organizational leaders often have the same inclinations. This creates especially dramatic problems when we are trying to accomplish change—because change is about human beings, first and foremost. The 'messiness' our management approaches so often try to avoid is, essentially, our humanness. In our desire for predictability, control and simplicity, we eliminate consideration of the reality of the human experience. Our behavior reflects our emotions as well as our presumed 'rationality'—we inhabit realities that are subjectively interpreted through our own unique backgrounds and experiences. Ultimately, change requires that a particular set of human beings behave in new ways. Without encouraging and supporting different choices that make sense to those particular human beings, investment in change is wasted."
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But it's not only economists who retreat to abstraction and analytics for comfort—organizational leaders often have the same inclinations. This creates especially dramatic problems when we are trying to accomplish change—because change is about human beings, first and foremost. The 'messiness' our management approaches so often try to avoid is, essentially, our humanness. In our desire for predictability, control and simplicity, we eliminate consideration of the reality of the human experience. Our behavior reflects our emotions as well as our presumed 'rationality'—we inhabit realities that are subjectively interpreted through our own unique backgrounds and experiences. Ultimately, change requires that a particular set of human beings behave in new ways. Without encouraging and supporting different choices that make sense to those particular human beings, investment in change is wasted."