Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes - Page 3

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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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  Our World, Self, Creating

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• Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

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  Patience, Hopeless, Hopelessness

  "Letting Go of Hope" by Margaret J. Wheatley, www.motherjones.com. November 28, 2005.

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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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  Determined, Knows

  Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron E. Rogers (1998). “A Simpler Way”, p.69, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

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  World, Poet, Possibility

  Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron E. Rogers (1998). “A Simpler Way”, p.12, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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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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  Letting Go, Organization, Appreciate

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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• Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

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  Perseverance, Simple, Choices

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Perseverance”, p.59, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept.

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  Political, Independence, Connecting

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.27, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others

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  Character, Intelligent, Thinking

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2007). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time”, p.258, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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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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  Anger, Aggression, Response

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2007). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time”, p.239, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

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  Leadership, Taken, Past

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• I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

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  Believe, Becoming Better, Survival

  "It's An Interconnected World". Shambhala Sun, April 2002.

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• Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.

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  Moving, One Direction, Aggression

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• I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

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  Healing, Belief, Assumption

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Turning to One Another (Large Print 16pt)”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are becoming more restless, more impatient, more demanding, and more insatiable, even as we become more connected and creative. We are rapidly losing the ability to think long about any- thing, even those issues we care about. We flit, moving restlessly from one link to another.

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  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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• Power is the capacity to generate relationships.

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  Capacity

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• We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

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  Independent, Science, Entity

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.276, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  Work, Believe, Passion

  Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron E. Rogers (1998). “A Simpler Way”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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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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  Military, Commitment, Successful

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• Circles create soothing space.

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  Circles, Space, Soothing

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.238, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  Study, Awareness, Process

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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• Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.

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  Teaching, Passion, Focus

  Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron E. Rogers (1998). “A Simpler Way”, p.57, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

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  Death, Effectiveness, Destroying

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.248, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.

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  Reflection, Way, Unintended Consequences

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.262, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

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  Creative, Life Is

  Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron E. Rogers (1998). “A Simpler Way”, p.15, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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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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  Thinking, Differences, Curious

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2007). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time”, p.240, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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