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

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Margaret J. Wheatley Living

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

Margaret J. Wheatley Future Present

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 Planning Thinking Strategy

Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Margaret J. Wheatley Welcome Voice People

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

Margaret J. Wheatley Life Daily Together

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 Power Motivation Control

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

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Margaret J. Wheatley Universe Know Independent

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

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Margaret J. Wheatley Me Surprised Hopelessness

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Margaret J. Wheatley Challenges Control Better

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

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Margaret J. Wheatley Power Decisions Where

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Margaret J. Wheatley Commitment Risk Military

And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Margaret J. Wheatley Reflection Me Nice

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 Courage Determination

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Margaret J. Wheatley Together People Think

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 Sad Great Past

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Margaret J. Wheatley People Situation Think

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

Margaret J. Wheatley Believe I Believe Capacity

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Margaret J. Wheatley Control People Military

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

Margaret J. Wheatley Fear Best Down
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