"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.“

-Margaret J. Wheatley

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"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."

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"In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together."

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"These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence."

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"We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!"

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"We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity."

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"I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control."

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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."

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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."

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