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Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Business Theorist
Writer
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A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.
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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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Power is the capacity to generate relationships.
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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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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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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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You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
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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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Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
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Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
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For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
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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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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.
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We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
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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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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
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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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We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
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In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
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