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“Employees are people who live in communities. Let's stop pretending workplaces are separate from community, places where robots go to die.”

Humanity Respect Dignity Workplace Human Resources Work Culture Toxic Culture Human Workplace

Book:Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

“Where politics are a nuisance and dialogue is abusive, everyone hands out their two cents but no one cares about nuance: Remove this snare on the truth then let silence cure our confusion.”

Truth Politics Understanding Silence Confusion Clarity Discourse Toxic Culture Lack Of Nuance Silence Is The Answer

Author:Criss Jami

“The need to revive civic education in our modern democracies is of the utmost importance to our future ability to preserve our democratic institutions and civil society. It is critical to preserving the equality of fundamental rights of all people. It is critical to developing the capacity for effective action to address the many complex social, political, economic, and environmental challenges arrayed before us. It is critical if we are going to successfully navigate the Fourth Industrial Revolution and ensure it truly results in positive disruptions that work in the interests of the people by democratizing social, financial, and political edifices -- rather than simply intensifying the concentration of wealth, power, and influence.”

Justice Democracy Civility Civics Civil Society Toxic Culture Civic Education

Book:Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

“Democracy is not something we have by divine right. It is a hard-won privilege granted to us by those who came before us and fought for it. These were people who knew the tyranny and injustice of oppressive masters who would deny ordinary people a voice and basic human rights, such as freedom of expression and association. But we forget that democracy requires an active, informed, and engaged citizenry that seeks the well-being of all, not just their gang, in order to thrive.”

Democracy Civility Civics Community Building Toxic Culture Civic Education Civic Values Save Your City Sustainable Communities

Book:Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

“The most pressing environmental problem we face today is not climate change. Rather it is pollution in the public square, where a smog of adversarial rhetoric, propaganda and polarization stifles discussion and debate, creating resistance to change and thwarting our ability to solve our collective problems.”

Climate Change Pollution Bias Civility Public Discourse Toxic Culture Public Debate Public Square

Book:I'm Right and You're an Idiot - 2nd Edition: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up

Source: I'm Right and You're an Idiot - 2nd Edition: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up

“Culture doesn't just change because it ought to. It changes because we decide to honestly assess the values, behaviours, and systems that are not working for us—not helping us thrive and flourish as a community—and replace them with ones that do.”

Values Culture Community Civility Flourishing Culture Change Incivility Toxic Culture Human Flourishing Civic Values

Book:Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

“Culture is like a forest. The seeds are your core values. Once they take root as behaviours, they can grow into trees, populating your cultural forest. Bad seeds produce unhealthy forests, infertile, and plagued by infestations. Good seeds produce a healthy forest and ecosystems that support life. One is sustainable, the other is simply not.”

Values Culture Community Behaviour Community Building Sustainable Toxic Culture Culture Matters

Book:Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

“Here they learn the rest of the lesson begun in those soft houses with porch swings and pots of bleeding heart: how to behave. The careful development of thrift, patience, high morals, and good manners. In short, how to get rid of the funkiness. The dreadful funkiness of passion, the funkiness of nature, the funkiness of the wide range of human emotions. Wherever it erupts, this Funk, they wipe it away; where it crusts, they dissolve it; wherever it drips, flowers, or clings, they find it and fight it until it dies. They fight this battle all the way to the grave. The laugh that is a little too loud; the enunciation a little too round; the gesture a little too generous. They hold their behind in for fear of a sway too free; when they wear lipstick, they never cover the entire mouth for fear of lips too thick, and they worry, worry, worry, about the edges of their hair.”

Pride Shame White Supremacy Funk Black Culture Colorism Toxic Culture

Author:Toni Morrison

“Incivility is the social equivalent of CO2 and leads to a sort of cultural climate change that is very difficult to reverse. Anger, confusion, and a willingness to engage in bullying to get one's way; these are all results of the current hot house climate we find ourselves in.”

Community Climate Change Self Control Civility Community Building Toxic Culture Culture Matters Toxic Community

Book:Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It