Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

• 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

• 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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  Topics in Life

• Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

• 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

  Topics in Work

• For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

• 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

• 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

  Topics in Work

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

  Margaret J. Wheatley

• 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

• Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Effectiveness

Margaret J. Wheatley (50)

Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer, Consultant

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