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Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
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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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Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.
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Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.
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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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Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
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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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This is a world of process, not a world of things.
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Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.
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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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Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
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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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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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To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.
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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.
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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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Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
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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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Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.
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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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