In the "Die Hard" Christmas Film Genre

 

The Mob is Intolerant

Tucked within a FutureLawyer post is a scary line which resembles many comments I hear nowadays:

"It is important that we monitor our words carefully in the political environment in which we find ourselves."

Unfortunately, he is correct and yet we need to push back, lest we become Eastern Europe in the bad old days.

Quick Look

 

When Practices are Cloaked, Use The Rooftop Rule

I have long recommended a Rooftop Rule to my clients: If you can't shout a policy or practice from the rooftops, you shouldn't be doing it. Don't have wink-wink, nudge-nudge, policies or practices that cloak the truth.

That said, over the past several months I have been studying practices related to equal opportunity in large organizations and have found many examples of cloaking. These are not inadvertent. They are designed to be deceptive. I'm conducting this review for an organization and cannot cite the examples now, but I recommend looking beneath the surface at the various policies in your own organization - equity policies are especially prone to this - and ask, "What does this really mean? What types of actions does this produce? Is this in accordance with the law?" 

And, of course, "Would we feel comfortable shouting a description of our findings from the rooftops?"

[Photo by Tommy at Unsplash]

From 2010: Bach Day at the BBC Proms

 

There is a Big Difference

 

There is a big difference between:

• Saying and communicating. 
• Working hard and working effectively.
• Studying and knowing.
• Seeing and noticing.
• Supporting and helping.
• Hearing and understanding.
• Being in love and loving.

Updates on Decline

• Robert Pondiscio: Performative teaching is undermining trust in schools.
• Sally Satel: How authoritarianism on the Left was somehow overlooked.
• 2018: Fukuyama postpones the end of history.
• Kevin Scott speaks up in defense of Bright Sheng.
• Andrew Sullivan on Dave Chappelle's "The Closer."

Candid vs Brutally Frank

 Wally Bock asks, "Are you really ready for candor?"

Sailor's Hornpipe

 

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