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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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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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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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Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.
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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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We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
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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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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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Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.
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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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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
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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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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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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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All social change begins with a conversation.
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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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There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
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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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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 error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
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One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.
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