"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."
-Margaret J. Wheatley
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"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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"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."
-Margaret J. Wheatley
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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!"
-Margaret J. Wheatley
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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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"I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger."
-John Buchanan
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"Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else."
-Thylias Moss
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"As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex."
-Adam Sedgwick
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"Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one."
-Lord Halifax
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"I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration."
-Agnes Obel
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"In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well."
-Edmund S. Muskie
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