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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
Power
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Relationships
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We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
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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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Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.
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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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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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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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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
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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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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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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
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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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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 know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
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Who you are depends on who you meet.
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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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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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You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.
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Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
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As we let go of the machine model of work, we begin to step back and see ourselves in new ways, to appreciate wholeness, and to design organizations that honor and make use of the totality of who we are.
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