Like any living system, every organization co-evolves. Its character and capabilities emerge as it plays with possibilities. It messes about with others until a workable system appears. This system has abilities and beliefs no one planned. It accomplishes work in ways no one designed. It has relationships no one mandated. While we worry about designs … Continue reading Like Any Living System, Every Organization Co-evolves Meg Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers
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Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among people who share a common cause and vision of what’s possible. This is good news for those of us intent on creating a positive future. Rather than worry about critical mass, our work is to foster critical … | Meg Wheatley Continue reading The World Doesn’t Change One Person at a Time Meg Wheatley
Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that’s when the process … | Meg Wheatley Continue reading Simple Conversations Give Birth to Actions Meg Wheatley
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone. | Meg Wheatley Continue reading Relationships Are All There Is Meg Wheatley
Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care. | Meg Wheatley Continue reading Change Starts From Small Conversations Meg Wheatley
Ask what’s possible, not what’s wrong. Keep asking. | Meg Wheatley Continue reading Ask What’s Possible, Not What’s Wrong Meg Wheatley
It’s not differences that divide us. It’s our judgments about each other that do. | Meg Wheatley Continue reading It’s Not Differences That Divide Us Meg Wheatley
It is time to stop waiting for someone to save us. It is time to face the truth of our situation — that we’re all in this together, that we all have a voice — and figure out how to mobilize the hearts and minds of everyone in our workplaces and communities. | Meg Wheatley Continue reading It Is Time to Stop Waiting for Someone to Save Us Meg Wheatley
I believe we can change the world if we start listening to one another again. Simple, honest, human conversation. Not mediation, negotiation, problem-solving, debate, or public meetings. Simple, truthful conversation where we each have a chance to speak, we each feel heard, and we each listen well. | Meg Wheatley Continue reading I Believe We Can Change the World If We Start Listening to One Another Again Meg Wheatley
A leader these days needs to be a host—one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth. | Meg Wheatley Continue reading A Leader These Days Needs to Be a Host Meg Wheatley
Conversation is the way that humans have always thought together. In conversation we discover shared meaning. It is the primal human organizing tool. Even in the corridors of power, very little real action happens in debate, but rather in the side rooms, the hallways, the lunches, the times away from the ritual spaces of authority and in the … | Meg Wheatley Continue reading Conversation Is the Way That Humans Have Always Thought Together Meg Wheatley
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Conversation Theory ** The Myth of Thamus and Theuth Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close What is the most powerful technology ever invented? Electricity, the Internet, nuclear power, the printing press or something different? In our business … Continue reading Our Most Powerful Technology Is Conversation Conversation – an overlooked human technology
