Andrew

“The ability to confront and work through conflict, without the drama and angst that we typically associate with it, is at the heart of making a fluid hierarchy work. Conflict resolution has long been an underdeveloped skill inside organizations.”
― Jamie Notter, When Millennials Take Over: Preparing For The Ridiculously Optimistic Future Of Business

“Water will wear away stone, but it won’t cook supper. Everything has its own strengths. Said with enough irony, it could also imply that since the gods surely had a purpose for everyone the person in question must be good for something, but the speaker couldn’t fathom what it might be.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword

“modern agriculture has thoroughly separated the agri from the culture. They’ve killed the meaning of the word—bifurcated it, completely, in just the last thirty or so years.”
― Dan Barber, The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

“Creating pull is about mastering the skills required to drive our own learning; it’s about how to recognize and manage our resistance, how to engage in feedback conversations with confidence and curiosity, and even when the feedback seems wrong, how to find insight that might help us grow.”
― Douglas Stone, Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well