#pro

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions! ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#come #competing #defeat #experience #forces

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

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#action #blame #cause #created #effect

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#aggression #culture #find #impede #less

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#frustrated #function #mission #organization #people

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

#comes #cycle #destroying #employ #end

I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort to build props and cosplay, when I was about twelve years-old. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#build #done #effort #first #geeky

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