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Power is the capacity to generate relationships.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Business Theorist
Writer
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Relationships
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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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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
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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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Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
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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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The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
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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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This is a world of process, not a world of things.
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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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Who you are depends on who you meet.
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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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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
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All social change begins with a conversation.
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We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.
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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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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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Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.
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When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
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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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