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There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Business Theorist
Writer
Care
Interconnection
Cares
Discovering
Greater
Community
Change
Power

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To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.
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Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
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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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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
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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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Who you are depends on who you meet.
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We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
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This is a world of process, not a world of things.
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The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.
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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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The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
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Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
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When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
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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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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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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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For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions
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Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.
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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
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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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