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“It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.”
― Margaret Wheatley

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.”
― Margaret Wheatley

“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

“Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.”
― Margaret Wheatley

“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful”
― Margaret Wheatley

“The things we fear most in organisations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.”
― Margaret J. Wheatley

“The only antidote to the unnerving effects of such incoherence is integrity. People and organizations with integrity are wholly themselves. No aspect of self stands different or apart. At their center is clarity, not conflict. When they go inside to find themselves, there is only one self there.”
― Margaret Wheatley

“… we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence …”
― Margaret Wheatley