From 905c082b5f9e49324f36591381c95a1515558db7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kathleen Fitzpatrick <3170201+kfitz@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 07:29:26 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] remove extra return --- assocdean250410.md | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/assocdean250410.md b/assocdean250410.md index 3c6f49cf..a09b6faf 100644 --- a/assocdean250410.md +++ b/assocdean250410.md @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ Note: The search committee provided me with this prompt for this talk -- and I w Note: We study our world's cultures and their modes of thought and expression, and we create new contributions to those cultures. We engage with different nations, different languages, different traditions, different communities. We ask different questions and use different methods in seeking answers. And we produce different kinds of work in those engagements. If we approach those differences from a competitive, scarcity-oriented mindset, then yes, our differences become challenges that we need to somehow get past in order to work together. But if instead we approach those differences from a collaborative perspective, with a belief in our collective abundance, then those differences will allow us to do more kinds of work together. We can learn from one another, we can share with one another, and we can increase our shared understanding in the process. - Cover of Generous Thinking Cover of Leading Generously Note: This belief is in part the basis for the arguments that I've made in my last two books, *Generous Thinking* and *Leading Generously* -- that, in order to create the best possible conditions for success for the work that we are all committed to doing, we have to do it together, and that "together" requires us all to reground ourselves in collaboration rather than competition, in listening to and learning from one another rather than thinking of our differences as barriers to understanding. I don't at all want to suggest that this is easy -- collaboration is hard, listening and learning are hard, and building and supporting diverse teams are hard -- but that's the work I've committed myself to over the last fifteen years, and that's the work that I hope I will be able to keep doing in the college.