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Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Acceptance category:
Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Authority category:
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. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Business category:
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Business category:
The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Change category:
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)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Clubs category:
The things we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Clubs category:
For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Complaining category:
Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Construction category:
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Culture category:
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. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Environment category:
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)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Failure category:
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Frustration category:
In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Hope category:
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Humanity category:
For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Interpretation category:
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. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Leadership category:
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Leadership category:
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Life category:
Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Listening category:
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Listening category:
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. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Problems category:
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Risk category:
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)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Space category:
Circles create soothing space... (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Suffering category:
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Survival category:
Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Technology category:
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. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Thinking category:
I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Thinking category:
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. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Universe category:
We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Margaret J. Wheatley - From the Work category:
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
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