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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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You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
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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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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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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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Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
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For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
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For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
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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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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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And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.
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This is a world of process, not a world of things.
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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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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
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To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.
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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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Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
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Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
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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 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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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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