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Rather Quotes by Margaret J. Wheatley
- Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
- 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…
- Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have…
- For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather…
- Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
- Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among people who share…
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- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov