Margaret J. Wheatley

Quotes

• “I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It ...”
• “In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so ...”
• “I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leader...”
• “In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's in...”
• “I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can ...”
• “I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strat...”
• “Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to eng...”
• “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...”
• “Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unim...”
• “The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until i...”
• “When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringin...”
• “I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is ne...”
• “We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.”
• “Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.”
• “The things we fear most in organizations-fluctuations disturbances imbalances-are the primary sources of creativity.”
• “Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.”
• “Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.”