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Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
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The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.
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Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
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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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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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Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.
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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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Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.
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We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
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A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.
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Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity of their structure is maintained. It is a natural process which supports the quest for structure, process renewal and integrity.
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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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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
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Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
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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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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
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Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
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Space is the basic ingredient of the universe there is more of it than anything else.
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When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
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