Turnaround

 The quarantine continues.

As we near 150 days (obligatory), I do wonder at how quickly time has passed.  The "inside the house" routine continues as "normal" but I still long for the day when we're allowed to go outside for a walk.  It is extraordinary how we can grow accustomed to (normalize) something that really is so strange.  

It's that thought as my segue to my July readings:  The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas and Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek.  

Thomas' book was a powerful read.  Three years after its publishing, we are still presented with the same battles, the same injustices, and the same frustration and anger that most of the time, there is no accountability.  I have kept this quote at hand for when the news gets too heavy:  

“Yet I think it’ll change one day. How? I don’t know. When? I definitely don’t know. Why? Because there will always be someone ready to fight. Maybe it’s my turn." p. 319

It is my turn. 

And maybe, that's what made me reach for a business book for the first time in ages.  

Sinek references a host of people we read about in the MBA years, but not in the same way.  His book grabbed me early with:

“For all the technology he has at his disposal, empathy, Johnny Bravo says, is the single greatest asset he has to do his job.” p. 22

We are frequently taught to make decisions by analyzing numbers but those numbers represent a lot of individuals who are easy to forget through the lens of excel and power point org charts.  Sinek references a "Circle of Safety" that we need to create for our organizations.  I agree, but let's do more.  

Let's work harder in our communities, let's speak up and out regarding injustices, let's be better as humans.