Margaret J. Wheatley
Margaret J. Wheatley
Margaret J. Wheatleyis an American writer and management consultant who studies organizational behavior. Her approach includes systems thinking, theories of change, chaos theory, leadership and the learning organization: particularly its capacity to self-organize. Her work is often compared to that of Donella Meadows and Dee Hock. She describes her work as opposing "highly controlled mechanistic systems that only create robotic behaviors."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
creativity play errors
When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
organization energy workplace
Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.
change taken numbers
We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.
realization wonderful whatever-happens
Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.
moving lines doe
Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.
military commitment successful
Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
work believe independent
Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
leadership believe organization
I believe that the capacity that any organization needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.
organization people frustrated
In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.
independent entity isolated
We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
roles steps courageous
For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.
self identity depends
Who you are depends on who you meet.
moving hero leader
We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.
reflection way unintended-consequences
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way..