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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
Creative
Makes
Life
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Goes

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When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
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The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
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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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I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
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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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Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
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Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
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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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No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.
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Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.
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Space is the basic ingredient of the universe there is more of it than anything else.
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You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
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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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To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.
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For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions
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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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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
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There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
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Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.
Margaret J. Wheatley