Margaret J. Wheatley

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way..

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

You can’t hate someone whose story you know.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

This is a world of process, not a world of things.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Power is the capacity to generate relationships.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

All social change begins with a conversation.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

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

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

“The things we fear most in organisations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.”

— Margaret J. Wheatley

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

— Margaret J. Wheatley

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

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

— Margaret J. Wheatley

We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation,…

— 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

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

Life now insists that we encounter groundlessness. Systems and ideas that seemed reliable and solid dissolve at an increasing rate. People who…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

It is time to stop waiting for someone to save us. It is time to face the truth of our situation -…

— 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

In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills,…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

One of the great errors organizations make is shutting down what is a natural, life-enhancing process-chaos. We are terrified of chaos. As…

— 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

“ELOS INSTITUTE, BRAZIL FROM POWER TO PLAY On the warrior’s path, it is up to you to discern which threads have been…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Ask what's possible, not what's wrong. Keep asking.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Circles create soothing space...

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Who you are depends on who you meet.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

— Margaret J. Wheatley