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"The Take Your Daughter To Work Day movement has succeeded. Girls today can enter any professional they choose. They can start their own businesses, advance their careers, and assume leadership roles in their organizations. We have achieved so much.
But our work is not finished. I think we have new work to do."
"The premise of this manifesto is, as my millennial friend Jackie put it, 'What if work didn't have to suck?'"
"How many times have we been told not to judge a book by its cover? How often do we fail and completely judge others based on what we think is 'normal' or acceptable? How do we know what they are thinking or feeling, if they are not able to tell us in the ways that we are used to? Why do we presume to know their cognitive levels or what they will be capable of in life? Who are we to judge?"
"Competition exists, and win-lose scenarios abound, but they weren't what captured our imaginations, nor what we believed our world needed more of. What we admired, what inspired us, were the organizations and individuals that went beyond competing to create new frontiers of opportunity, growth, and jobs, where success was not about dividing up an existing, often shrinking pie, but about creating a larger economic pie for all—what we refer to as blue oceans."
"Ultimately, change requires that a particular set of human beings behave in new ways. Without encouraging and supporting different choices that make sense to those particular human beings, investment in change is wasted."
