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Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Business Theorist
Writer
Life
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Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
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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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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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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 know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
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