"Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed……" — 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 control than have the organization work well."
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Margaret J. Wheatley
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86 Quotes by Margaret J. Wheatley
Margaret J. Wheatley has 86 quotes on this site.
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When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover…
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Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
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Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any…
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Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.
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Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation…
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Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have…
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Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
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Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out…
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We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future.…
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In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own…
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We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.
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I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership…
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In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
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