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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
Judgments
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Divides
Motivation
Judgment
Leadership
Differences

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A leader is one who... Has more faith in people than they do, and . . . who holds opportunities open long enough for their competence to re-emerge.
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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
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As we let go of the machine model of work, we begin to step back and see ourselves in new ways, to appreciate wholeness, and to design organizations that honor and make use of the totality of who we are.
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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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Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
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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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Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.
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Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.
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We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
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Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
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They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.
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One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.
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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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Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
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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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All social change begins with a conversation.
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I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
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You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
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I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences
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When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
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