#us

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#forward #fulfilling #help #merely #more

It's not just what you do on the pitch, it's what you do off the pitch. ↗

— Paul Ince

#off #pitch #you

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

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#closer #creates #fragmentation #healthy #helps

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

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 than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#conscious #conscious decision #decision #discussing #email

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

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