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adaptive work  

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  • Our language fails us in many aspects of our lives, entrapping us in a set of cultural assumptions like cattle herded by fences into a corral. Gender pronouns, for example, corral us into teaching children that God is a “he,” distancing girls and women from the experience of the divine in themselves. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Adaptive Work]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/adaptive_work

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