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I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#believe #better #depends #i #i believe

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#budgeting #business #delivered #i #i think

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#consequences #ecology #every #every time #example

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#being #circus #doing #end #famous

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

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To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

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Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards. ↗

— William Whewell

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The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#creators #dare #few #going #horrendous

You always wonder if you can make plays at the end. ↗

— Bruce Weber

#end #make #plays #wonder #you

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects. ↗

— John Webster

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