Margaret J. Wheatley: Need

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“We will need to become savvy about how to build relationships, how to nurture growing, evolving things. All of us will need better skills in listening, communicating, and facilitating groups, because these are the talents that build strong relationships.”

Margaret J. Wheatley

Source: Leadership and the New Science (1992), p. 38

Communication , Strong

“The dense and tangled web of life-the interconnected nature of reality--now reveals itself on a daily basis. Since September 11th, think about how much you've learned about people, nations, and ways of life that previously you'd known nothing about. We've been learning how the lives of those far away affect our own. We're beginning to realize that in order to live peacefully together on this planet, we need to be in new relationships, especially with those far-distant from us.”

Margaret J. Wheatley

Opening paragraph
It's An Interconnected World (2002)

Life , People , Way , Nature

“The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - need not be signs ofan impending disorder that will destroy us. Instead, fluctuations are the primary source of creativity.”

Margaret J. Wheatley

Source: Leadership and the New Science (1992), p. 19-20 as cited in: Michael C. Jackson (2000) Systems Approaches to Management. p. 77

Fear

“Over many years of work all over the world, I've lucius allen arned that if we organize in the same way that the rest of life does, we develop the skills we need: we become resilient, adaptive, aware, and creative. We enjoy working together. And life's processes work everywhere, no matter the culture, group, or person, because these are basic dynamics shared by all living beings.”

Margaret J. Wheatley

Finding Our Way: Leadership For an Uncertain Time (2005)

Life , World , Way , Personality

“In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.”

Margaret J. Wheatley

Source: Turning to one another (2002), p. 72

Life , People , Anger