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
leadership motivation differences
It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
leadership hero roles
Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
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.
discovery mind vision
We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be involved in discovery... it asks that we participate rather than plan.
leadership believe organization
I believe that the capacity that any organization needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.
creative life-is
Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.
learning grace curiosity
The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is a new kind of freedom, where it is more rewarding to explore than to reach conclusions, more satisfying to wonder than to know, and more exciting to search than to stay put. Curiosity, not certainty, becomes the saving grace.
capacity
Power is the capacity to generate relationships.
drawing pieces world
In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.
realization wonderful whatever-happens
Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.
determined knows
The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.
focus effort discovering
We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
integrity learning self
Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity of their structure is maintained. It is a natural process which supports the quest for structure, process renewal and integrity.