Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?'
You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
All social change begins with a conversation.
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.
All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.
The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
Who you are depends on who you meet.
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.
Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
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.
We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.
Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.
As we let go of the machine model of work, we begin to step back and see ourselves in new ways, to appreciate wholeness, and to design organizations that honor and make use of the totality of who we are.
We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.
Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.
Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept.
Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.
Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others
Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.
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