CHAPTER 20
Are You Emotionally Agile?
Nothing can be changed until it is faced.
—JAMES BALDWIN
Remember Mitt Romney’s statement during one of the 2012 presidential debates? “Corporations are people too.”
Old Mittens took a lot of heat for that gaffe. However, what he was expressing was a fundamental truth to the nature of resilience. Thanks to massive financial deregulation and the Citizens United decision handed down by the Supreme Court, corporations and businesses are free to operate in a vague legal fiction that treats them with the same legal rights as a person. In the eyes of the law, corporations literally are people.
Now, let’s take it further. An organization is made up of people. A collection of hearts and minds. A collection of values. ...
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