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When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
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We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.
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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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This is a world of process, not a world of things.
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Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone
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A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.
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You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
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When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
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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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Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
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Space is the basic ingredient of the universe there is more of it than anything else.
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In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.
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Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others
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The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
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In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can't happen without us and nobody can do it for us.
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Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.
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