ALT We’ll see you in September.

ALT Domee Shi, the director of Turning Red, and Brené Brown on the Unlocking Us podcast.

ALT A quote from Kam Franklin—an artist, leader, activist, and lead singer for The Suffers—who appeared on the Dare to Lead podcast with Brené Brown: Impossible? No, never impossible. I didn’t sign up for this job to be comfortable. Rock and roll is hard. It’s not comfortable. I come from the land of Beyoncé and Barbara Jordan. You need to talk to someone else about impossible.

ALT A quote from Father Richard Rohr: The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

ALT A quote from Scott Sonenshein: The world is always changing. Now it’s a racial reckoning and a pandemic. Before this, we had the 2008 recession and the dot-com boom. If you think you’re going to come in and operate your business as if it’s February 2020, you’re going to get crushed. If you think you’re leading the same workforce—people with the same mindset, the same mentality, the same desires, and the same priorities—you are nuts. You have to change or get out of the way. There’s no turning back. This is the big reset, and that’s where the hope and opportunity live.

ALT A quote from Emmanuel Acho’s book ‘Illogical’: Your calling is your calling. It’s not a conference call. Only you know that pure passion that burns within you.

ALT A still image of Brené Brown in the new HBO Max series, Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart, which is streaming now.

ALT A quote from Susan Cain, who appeared on the Unlocking Us podcast with Brené Brown: We live in a culture that only wants to talk about what’s going well. Anything that’s not going well is positioned as a detour from the main road. The truth is that pain is not a detour from the main road. Pain is part of the road we walk as human beings.

ALT James Rhee on the value of kindness at work: Creating a culture of kindness at work distributes the joy of problem-solving to everyone, creates a safe environment that unleashes innovation, and turns perceived liabilities into assets to create real equity value in every meaning of the word.

ALT Takeaways from Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day, by Dr. Amishi Jha: (1) Your attention can be like a flashlight. Where you point it becomes brighter, highlighted, more salient. (2) Multitasking—or, more specifically, task switching—is terrible for our performance, accuracy, and mood. (3) You only have one flashlight. Not two. Not three. And your one flashlight can only ever be shining at one thing at a time. In a day when you do a lot of task switching, you’ll start having less integrity in any of the states your attention is in . . . You’re going to become slower, more error prone, and emotionally worn down.

ALT A quote from Susan Cain: “Whatever pain you can’t get rid of, make it your creative offering.”

ALT A quote from Karen Walrond, from the Unlocking Us podcast with Brené Brown: I will never apologize for embracing joy and beauty—even when the world is falling apart—because joy and beauty are my fuel for activism.

ALT A quote from an article by Donald Sull, Charles Sull, and Ben Zweig, published in the MIT Sloan Management Review: A toxic corporate culture is by far the strongest predictor of industry-adjusted attrition and is 10 times more important than compensation in predicting turnover.

ALT A quote from Kara Swisher, who appeared, with Scott Galloway, on the Unlocking Us podcast with Brené Brown: Technology’s supposed to be good. We’ve just mostly been in The Empire Strikes Back period of our technology. It doesn’t have to be that way.

ALT A quote from an article by Megan Reitz and John Higgins, published in the MIT Sloan Management Review: We are entering an age of employee activism that may well upend our assumptions about power within organizations.