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Space is the basic ingredient of the universe there is more of it than anything else.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
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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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In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.
Margaret J. Wheatley
When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
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All social change begins with a conversation.
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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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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
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Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.
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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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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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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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In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can't happen without us and nobody can do it for 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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Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.
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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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For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
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Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
Margaret J. Wheatley
A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.
Margaret J. Wheatley
To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.
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