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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
Writer
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Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
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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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When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
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We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
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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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There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
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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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Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
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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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Power is the capacity to generate 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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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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This is a world of process, not a world of things.
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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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Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.
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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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No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.
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You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
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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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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
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