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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.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
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Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
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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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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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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
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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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All social change begins with a conversation.
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Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.
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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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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?'
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Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.
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Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.
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For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
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we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.
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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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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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