The thing with difficult conversations is that nobody ever wants to have them, especially if you are like me and dread even the slightest of tensions in relationships, even though we know that avoiding them will only make things worse.
Think of an imaginary line. On the one extreme of this line, picture a time when you were in your most stressed state. Being in deep sleep (i.e. the polar opposite of that) can be situated on the other extreme of this imaginary line.
Recently, I had a day of back-to-back meetings that lasted for hours. At the start of the day, I was pumped up to have so many different interactions, on distinct projects, with people across several parts of the globe – all while sitting in the comfort of my home.
In the year post-2020, how have we furthered anti-racism? How much responsibility and action has actually taken place? How much are companies and corporations working towards anti-racism? Performative allyship is not enough, yet the cognitive dissonance organisations have accumulated has made companies absolve themselves of all moral and human responsibility
On May 25th, 2020, video footage circulated around the world showing the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. Floyd could be heard pleading “I can’t breathe” a total of 28 times. These were the same three words Eric Garner had shouted six years earlier when
In recent years, a growing number of organisations have begun to take steps to drive racial inclusion. This process was of course hastened, and its need made more widespread in the wake of George Floyd’s death and protests that followed
On the 14th of September, our consultant, Ora Rammala hosted an event, Keeping up the momentum: representation and inclusion of South African women in business. The conversation was an open and vulnerable reflection on South Africa Women’s Month and the manifestations of discrimination women face within the corporate world. We
Racism’s systemic nature means that, as Audre Lorde writes, “we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing to handle those differences in one of three ways: ignore it… copy it if we think it’s dominant or destroy it if we think
“I am not good enough”, “I don’t belong here”, “Soon they will find out that I don’t deserve this”, “My luck is going to run out”, “My abilities have been overestimated” – Have you heard any of these before or ever thought these to yourself? If you have, then you
In recent weeks, the US senate has seen a growing momentum to expand the military draft to include women, especially after Pentagon opened all combat roles to women in 2015.[1] A congressionally authorised commission also backed this change in March last year. The change in terminology to “All Americans” is
When organisations try to change their culture, they can sometimes fall short at actually being able to recognise how and when behaviours are changing. The change is difficult to measure and hard to quantify.
It’s been a really serious and sobering year-and-a-half for all of us collectively. The pandemic and its resultant economic turmoil, socio-political strife, and the constant doom-and-gloom of the media have (understandably) wiped the smiles off a lot of people’s faces
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