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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
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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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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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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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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
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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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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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Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.
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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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Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to 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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Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.
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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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And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.
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The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.
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Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.
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For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions
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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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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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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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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
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