Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes - Page 3

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• Life now insists that we encounter groundlessness. Systems and ideas that seemed reliable and solid dissolve at an increasing rate. People who asked for our trust betray or abandon us. Strategies that worked suddenly don't. Groundlessness is a frightening place, at least at first, but as the old culture turns to mush, we would feel stronger if we stopped searching for ground, if we sought only to locate ourselves in the present and do our work from here.

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  Ideas, People, Soul

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• All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.

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  Strong, Skills, Listening

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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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  Work, Anger, People

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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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  People, Listening, Benefits

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.239, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

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  Power, Decision, Problem

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.230, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.

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  Power, Love Is, Realization

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World”, p.34, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

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  Drawing, Western Culture, Pieces

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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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• 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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• In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can't happen without us and nobody can do it for us.

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  Learning, Knowledge, Reality

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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