I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Margaret J. Wheatley
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  1. We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

  2. The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

  3. The things we fear most in organizations-fluctuations disturbances imbalances-are the primary sources of creativity.

  4. 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.

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

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