156 Quotes by Margaret J. Wheatley

Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

It is time to stop waiting for someone to save us. It is time to face the truth of our situation - that we're all in this together, that we all have a voice - and figure out how to mobilize the hearts and minds of everyone in our workplaces and communities.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.