“If we start with the attitude that different viewpoints are additive rather than competitive, we become more effective because our ideas or decisions are honed and tempered by that discourse. In a healthy, creative culture, the people in the trenches feel free to speak up and bring to light differing views that can help give us clarity.”
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“Jena Osman’s book Public Figures”
― The Book of Delights: Essays
― The Book of Delights: Essays
“[Organic leaders are] almost never the workers who most want to talk with us. More often than not, [they’re] the workers who don’t want to talk to us and remain in the background. They have a sense of their value and won’t easily step forward, not unless and until there’s a credible reason. That’s part of the character that makes them organic leaders.”
― No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
― No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
“Solidarity among human beings can happen spontaneously, as in a flood or fire, or by design, through organizing.”
― No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
― No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
“The text has in it the wizardry of politics—the fact that it is possible for a multitudinous heap of people to build a shared life by doing things with words.”
― Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
― Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
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