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"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."
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"Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay."
"There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences."
"We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."
"Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming."
"The only thing destroying us is ignorance."
"I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it."
"The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective."
"I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution."
"So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get."
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"Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die."
"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."
"I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed."
"Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control."
"I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed."
"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."
"Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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