You Don't See the Irony

You're a people manager, VP, executive, or otherwise in a position of influence and power.

You haven't done your personal development work, so you don't know how to create a culture of inclusion and belonging.

You lack social fluency, relational agility, and cultural competency. You don't know how to connect with people who have different lived experiences than you.

You navigate the world with outdated and inaccurate story lines:

I have no time for empathy.
EQ is for wusses.
People just make excuses.
It's a meritocracy.

But these are simply your narrow story lines. Your ingrained habits. Your stubborn perspectives you won't let go of.

You don't realize that you're the problem. That you are driving attrition. That you are sapping motivation. That you are uninspiring. That you are the cause of low productivity, lack of innovation, less creativity.

When any of this is brought to your attention, you dig in. You rebut. You dismiss. You fuel the devolution with your righteous indignation and fragility.

Dynamics that could easily improve, persist, because you are unwilling to reflect and change. You strengthen the story line at the cost of the "results" you claim to want in the first place.

And of course you don't see the irony.

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