Margaret J. Wheatley
Margaret J. Wheatley
Margaret J. Wheatleyis an American writer and management consultant who studies organizational behavior. Her approach includes systems thinking, theories of change, chaos theory, leadership and the learning organization: particularly its capacity to self-organize. Her work is often compared to that of Donella Meadows and Dee Hock. She describes her work as opposing "highly controlled mechanistic systems that only create robotic behaviors."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
Margaret J. Wheatley quotes about
meaningful world connections
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
community isolation individual
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone
community care discovering
There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
leadership motivation differences
It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
ideas people soul
Life now insists that we encounter groundlessness. Systems and ideas that seemed reliable and solid dissolve at an increasing rate. People who asked for our trust betray or abandon us. Strategies that worked suddenly don't. Groundlessness is a frightening place, at least at first, but as the old culture turns to mush, we would feel stronger if we stopped searching for ground, if we sought only to locate ourselves in the present and do our work from here.
order play giving
Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
world poet possibility
We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.
courage determination risk
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
leadership hero roles
Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
heart thinking order
we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.
leadership motivation real
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.
love-is power realization
We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.
different gains interpretation
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.
patience hopelessness
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.