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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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For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
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Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.
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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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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
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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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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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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
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Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
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You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
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All social change begins with a conversation.
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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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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
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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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