It& #39;s easier for white folk to interrupt Black folk. It& #39;s easier for men to interrupt women. Most people aren& #39;t as good at standing up for their airtime as Kamala Harris or Maxine Waters.

So if your team has a culture of interrupting, you are guaranteeing sub-optimal idea flow.

If your culture is "Everyone interrupt everyone!" The ideas that get surfaced, backed, and implemented, will tend to be less good, whiter, and male-er.

You are responsible for moderating written, spoken, and non-verbal, communication on your team, and at your company.

On the interrupty team, the ideas will be less good not because it& #39;s missing womens& #39; "different perspective." Maybe a little, but that& #39;s not the primary flaw.

The flaw: good ideas tend to be evenly distributed, and you source 100% of dude ideas, but only ~10% of non-dude ideas.

Just by fixing this one thing, you& #39;ll notice a change in your definition of who is considered a leader on your team, or at your company. You& #39;ll change the criteria for the better, and in the direction of inclusion. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👍🏿" title="Thumbs up (dunkler Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Thumbs up (dunkler Hautton)">