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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
Business Theorist
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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.
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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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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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Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.
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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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Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.
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When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
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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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When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
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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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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
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Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.
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Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
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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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Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.
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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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You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
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Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.
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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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