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
patience hopelessness
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
knowledge learning diversity
A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.
mean together needs
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.
creating our-world self
We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.
believe becoming-better survival
I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
courage determination risk
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
determined knows
The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.
hate stories knows
You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
leadership hero roles
Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
heart thinking order
we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.
perspective needs half
Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.
leadership motivation real
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
world poet possibility
We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.
discovery mind vision
We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be involved in discovery... it asks that we participate rather than plan.