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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. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#bosses #capacity #choose #control #destroyed

Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#create #even #people #realize #soothing

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

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#control #created #order #organizations #ourselves

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

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

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#engage #everyone #higher #including #intelligence

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

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#crazy #drives #exists #hollywood #me