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Margaret J. Wheatley

"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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"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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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."

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"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."

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"For example, 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."

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"When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed."

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"In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable."

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"Hopelessness has surprised me with patience."

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

Conflict

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"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."

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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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"Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions."

Action

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