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Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?'

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Business Theorist
Writer
Connections
Asking
Question
Keep
Weakening
Strengthening
Connecting

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For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
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Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.
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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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Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
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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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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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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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Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
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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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A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.
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You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
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Space is the basic ingredient of the universe there is more of it than anything else.
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There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
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Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.
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Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.
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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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To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.
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