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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. This is no surprise, given that for most of its written history, leadership has been defined in terms of its control functions.

— Margaret Wheatley Leadership and the New Science (1992)

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Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

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