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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
Conversation
Social
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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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Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
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Power is the capacity to generate relationships.
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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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Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
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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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Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.
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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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A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.
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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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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
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When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
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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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Space is the basic ingredient of the universe there is more of it than anything else.
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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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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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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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Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.
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Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.
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