Meg Wheatley - Leadership and the new science (1992)

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Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren't there before.

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They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.

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

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In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can't happen without us and nobody can do it for us.

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A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.

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Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.

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Space is the basic ingredient of the universe; there is more of it than anything else.

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We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.

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We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.

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