Dan Clay: Why you should bring your whole self to work
Dan Clay: De ce trebuie să fii tu însuți la muncă
By day, Dan Clay is a partner in at a brand and innovation consultancy. His more well-known persona is Carrie Dragshaw. Full bio
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decisive, unwavering.
always have an answer.
să ai un răspuns la orice.
at a global creative consultancy.
la o firmă de consultanță mondială.
I couldn't help but wonder ...
mi-am pus următoarea întrebare...
is a little nontraditional,
bring to the office?
îl poți lua cu tine la birou?
dintre noi interzisă?
one way to be a leader:
în care să fii lider:
office drag to fit the role:
try to hold in my hand motions.
controlam mișcările mâinilor.
really excited about things,
in my head, telling me,
too feminine, too flamboyant."
prea feminin, prea exuberant."
adviser who said,
And that's great.
Și asta e grozav.
over the head with it."
de Halloween în 2016.
TV show character, Carrie Bradshaw,
Carrie Bradshaw,
would get a kick out of it.
and at first it was pure fun.
și la început doar mă amuzam.
messages from people
to be their authentic selves.
little voice in my head to just shut up
acea voce din capul meu
In the "New York Post", "US Weekly" --
în „New York Post”, „US Weekly”.
still respect me as a leader?
get a different job.
să caut alt loc de muncă.
something small.
ceva nesemnificativ.
it wasn't long, it just said,
that had just gone up about me.
scared voice away
about this whole new world,
pentru această lume complet nouă,
to make you feel comfortable.
ca să te simți confortabil.
started acting differently.
more playful with me,
to be more of themselves as well.
my standing with my team.
part of me would not just be embraced,
nu numai că va fi acceptată,
in my career when all of this started.
când a început totul.
of bringing your whole self to work.
să fii tu însuți la serviciu.
my own misperceptions
and finding ways to amplify them.
și să înveți să le amplifici.
I'd put on my perfect leader mask.
adoptam atitudinea liderului perfect.
"Gosh, that was frustrating."
„Doamne, ce frustrant!"
and struggles in an open way,
într-un mod deschis,
that they're fine until it's too late.
până devine prea târziu.
e nevoie să depui efort.
spent pretending,
pe care o consumi prefăcându-te,
is that in this big study of covering,
pe această temă ce afirmă
who say they're doing it
felul de a fi la muncă
values inclusion.
pune preț pe incluziune.
and all of our strange inner voices
și vocile noaste interioare ciudate
between adapting and disguising.
între a te adapta și a te ascunde.
as a call to be the ally
ca o provocare să devin acel aliat
că e în regulă să fii deschis.
of your ethnic background,
de locul din care provii,
or are deeply religious,
sau ești o persoană religioasă,
being your full self at work.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dan Clay - Writer, consultantBy day, Dan Clay is a partner in at a brand and innovation consultancy. His more well-known persona is Carrie Dragshaw.
Why you should listen
Dan Clay is a partner in strategy and innovation for Lippincott, an NYC-based consultancy. His expertise focuses on the strategic growth spaces that emerge from changing customer needs, expectations, fears and desires. In addition to advising financial services, health care and retail clients, Clay is a leading voice in Lippincott's intellectual capital and has authored several reports on how to build emotional bonds with the customer of the future. He graduated with an MBA from Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania and received his undergraduate degree in philosophy at Northwestern University.
Clay's more well-known persona is Carrie Dragshaw. What started as a simple Halloween costume turned into a viral fairy tale. Clay recreates classic Sex and the City looks and accompanies them with original "couldn't help but wonder" monologues. He's been featured in Cosmopolitan, L.A. Times, Us Weekly, the New York Post, BuzzFeed, Man Repeller, Huffington Post, Out, Refinery29, InStyle and more. Carrie Dragshaw has one simple mission: to create a little corner of the internet that is only positivity and love.
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