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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.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Business Theorist
Writer
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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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Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
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When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
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There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
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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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Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.
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Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?'
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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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For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
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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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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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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
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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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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
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Power is the capacity to generate relationships.
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We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
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When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
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Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.
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Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity of their structure is maintained. It is a natural process which supports the quest for structure, process renewal and integrity.
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