Margaret Wheatley - Order Quotes

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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.

Margaret Wheatley
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.

Margaret Wheatley
We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. This is no surprise, given that for most of its written history, leadership has been defined in terms of its control functions.

Margaret Wheatley
I was reading of chaos that contained order; of information as the primal, creative force; of systems that, by design, fell apart so they could renew themselves; and of invisible forces that structured space and held complex things together. These were compelling, evocative ideas, and they gave me hope, even if they did not reveal immediate solutions.

Margaret Wheatley
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 Wheatley
Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.

Margaret Wheatley