Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

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

In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

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

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.

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

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.