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All social change begins with a conversation.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Business Theorist
Writer
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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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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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Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
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When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
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We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
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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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Who you are depends on who you meet.
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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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This is a world of process, not a world of things.
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For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
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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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Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity of their structure is maintained. It is a natural process which supports the quest for structure, process renewal and integrity.
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.
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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 in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.
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There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
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They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.
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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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Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.
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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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