At Work with The Ready

Brave New Work 40. JEDI: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion with Sharan Bal


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It's been six weeks since George Floyd was murdered, and activism around the Black Lives Matter movement has reached new heights. For many of us, it's triggered incredibly challenging conversations and reflections about who we are and who we want to be. It feels like now is the time for real change—but what kind? How can each of us play our part without blame or shame? And where do we begin?

In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans are joined by their colleague and resident JEDI knight, Sharan Bal to talk about the peril and promise of this moment, and what change agents like us ought to do about it. We don't have all the answers, but we're starting anyway.

Learn more about Sharan on LinkedIn.


Mentioned references:

  • US Climate Action Network
  • Cornel West
  • Tiye Sherrod-Robinson
  • Black Lives Matter
  • The Ready's OS Canvas
  • "implicit bias"
  • Frederick Winslow Taylor ("Taylorism")
  • scientific management
  • The Ready's hiring process: BNW Ep. 14
  • "the Boston Review article": How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management (2018)
  • Henry Gantt, creator of the Gantt chart
  • Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, authors of the Dismantling Racism Workbook

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    00:00 Intro + Check-In: What should our listeners know about us and our social identities?

    04:02 What is JEDI

    10:04 The Ready’s position in this moment

    12:16 Thinking about change using the OS Canvas

    20:51 Is it the people or the system or both?

    25:29 The real learning doesn’t happen in the training. It happens in the work

    31:35 All “modern” work practices predate the civil Rights movement

    36:24 What might “different” actually look like

    49:29 What’s next for The Ready’s JEDI journey

    55:41 Wrap Up: Leave us a review!

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