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When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Business Theorist
Writer
Power
Disappears
Play
Ceases
Much
Error
Holds
Cease
Disappear
Errors
Creativity

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Who you are depends on who you meet.
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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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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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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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One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.
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We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
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Space is the basic ingredient of the universe there is more of it than anything else.
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