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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Business Theorist
Writer
Blindly
Reflecting
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Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.
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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.
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Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.
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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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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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There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
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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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Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
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To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.
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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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Power is the capacity to generate relationships.
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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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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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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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Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
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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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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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Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.
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The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
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