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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
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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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Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.
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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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You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
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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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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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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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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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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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To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.
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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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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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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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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.
Margaret J. Wheatley
We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
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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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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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