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Who you are depends on who you meet.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Business Theorist
Writer
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Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.
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For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions
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Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
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A leader is one who... Has more faith in people than they do, and . . . who holds opportunities open long enough for their competence to re-emerge.
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For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
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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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Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
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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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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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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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Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.
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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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We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.
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There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
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Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
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Space is the basic ingredient of the universe there is more of it than anything else.
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All social change begins with a conversation.
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We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
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