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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 to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#advise #anything #coach #else #just

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#contribute #decisions #familiar #good #good work

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#assume #context #dangerous #feels #given

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#command #control #leadership #military #most

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#changes #confronted #control #external #initiated

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#america #angry #around #bar #currently

When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#attracted #buffy #careful #create #created

I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#because #better #i #i love #includes

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#because #connects #decisions #done #efficient

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid? ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#been #behind #century #could #decade