11 Quotes by Harrison Owen

As people think and work together, a fabric of shared meaning comes into being.

It would seem that most everything we do in the name of organizational effectiveness is antithetical to what Life requires

Open some space, and Spirit will certainly show up. Allow the magic of self-organization to work for you, and the complex adaptive system that we are will find its own power.

…most of the ways in which we know how to engineer change…are not effective. Given a…logical problem to solve, we are superb… But…the fundamental premises are different, which means that our logic is without power.

Up until now, some of us actually thought that we created and organized the systems in which we work. But should it turn out that natural system…are truly self-organizing, much of that effort was wasted.

It is only in the dance between chaos and order that life progresses.

Forget about trusting the process; trust the people.

When the spirit of people is strong focused and vibrant, wonderful things happen.

Change is a journey and the journey is always about change. And if there is no change, why bother with the journey? And the best journeys require lots of space of one sort or another. So for great journeys – just open space.