Margaret J. Wheatley

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

I believe that the capacity that any organization needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

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

— Margaret J. Wheatley

You can’t hate someone whose story you know.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so…

— 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…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among…

— Margaret J. Wheatley