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Soft to Each Other, Hard on the System

Tom Geraghty · Politics, Diversity & Equity, Complexity & Systems, Interpersonal Practice

A brief article accompanying a sticker design: 'be soft to each other and hard on the system'. A distillation of Deming's insight that a bad system beats a good person every time — and that compassion and structural critique are both necessary, not in tension.

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