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Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
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Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.
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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
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Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
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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?'
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
This is a world of process, not a world of things.
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Space is the basic ingredient of the universe; there is more of it than anything else.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
A leader is one who ... Has more faith in people than they do, and ... who holds opportunities open long enough for their competence to re-emerge.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
To name is to make visible.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Who you are depends on who you meet.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Ask what's possible, not what's wrong. Keep asking.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Power is the capacity to generate relationships.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
You can't hate someone whose story you know.
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Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [ ... ] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.
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Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,
imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity. — Margaret J. Wheatley
imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity. — Margaret J. Wheatley
Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.
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I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.
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All social change begins with a conversation.
— Margaret J. Wheatley