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This is a world of process, not a world of things.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Business Theorist
Writer
Things
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Process

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As we let go of the machine model of work, we begin to step back and see ourselves in new ways, to appreciate wholeness, and to design organizations that honor and make use of the totality of who we are.
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There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
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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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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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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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You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
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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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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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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
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Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone
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All social change begins with a conversation.
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Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
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The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.
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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
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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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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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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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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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