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Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Business Theorist
Writer
Breeds
Aggression
Creates
Anger
Fear

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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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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.
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Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.
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One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.
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This is a world of process, not a world of things.
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There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
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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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When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
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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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Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
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Power is the capacity to generate relationships.
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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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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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To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.
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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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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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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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All social change begins with a conversation.
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