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“How we behave in crisis, what gets rewarded or recognized, what gets ignored, what gets measured and controlled, and what gets people fired, are examples of how culture gets embedded in an organization and the feedback loops that exist in our organizations (Schein, 1985).”
― Kathleen E. Allen, Leading from the Roots: Nature-Inspired Leadership Lessons for Today's World

“When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you, and even men can turn themselves into the wind. As long as the wind helps, of course.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It is close and hot in there and smells of rust and sweat. Avice is panting with her hair slick and eyes feral in the dark of the bed. Goda is feeling between the girl’s legs. She is saying that the human body appears to be more delicate and far more poorly constructed for birthing than the bodies of the beasts she administers to; that she has often wondered why human females so frequently die in childbirth, but now she has discovered it’s because their hips are so small and the babies’ heads so disproportionately large, and why god would make the human beast so unfit for birthing is a mystery. Or perhaps not, she sighs, I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children.”
― Lauren Groff, Matrix

“And while it may seem that people of color always need to “put race in everything,” it’s the neglect of the specific needs of people of color, which exist whether you acknowledge them or not, that necessitate it in the first place.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race