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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.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
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The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
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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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Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
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No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.
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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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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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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
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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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For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
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Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
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There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
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Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
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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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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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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
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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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Power is the capacity to generate relationships.
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