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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
Capacity
Power
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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Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.
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Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.
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Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good 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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A leader is one who... Has more faith in people than they do, and . . . who holds opportunities open long enough for their competence to re-emerge.
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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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Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
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To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.
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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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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
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For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
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All social change begins with a conversation.
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Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
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Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
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When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
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