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133: Dark Horses with Chanté Thurmond
01:56 - Chanté’s Superpower: Spotting Talent (Dark Horses)
05:33 - Perceiving Talent/Potential
09:15 - Confronting Biases and Societal Categorization/Division/Labeling
18:54 - Identity as a Feedback Loop
25:04 - Health and Wellness and Human Potential
27:00 - Privilege vs Potential
Actuality, Capability, Potentiality
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
36:31 - Framing; Framing as Related to Coaching
Matt Ringel: Whiteboarding 101
RailsConf 2019 - Keynote: The Stories We Tell Our Children by Ariel Caplan
49:39 - Working with Organizations to Improve Diversity and Inclusion (Using Metrics)
Reflections:
John: When you pay attention to the margins, the marginalized, etc., and optimize for those getting better, you also optimize for the happiness of the rest of the people inside those margins.
Jessica: Letting go of your goal allows emergence of outcomes you didn’t expect.
Rein: Having values that we can use to determine whether we are moving in the direction we want to move in, and to continue to move in the direction that is towards our values.
Chanté: It’s not about quantity, it’s about quality conversation.
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Special Guest: Chanté Thurmond.
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