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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Business Theorist
Writer
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Motivation
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Leadership
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In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
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we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.
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Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
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Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
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Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
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We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
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Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.
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Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.
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Who you are depends on who you meet.
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
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When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.
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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
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I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.
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For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
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To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.
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Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
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The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
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