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Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.

— Margaret Wheatley Margaret Wheatley (2006)

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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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Leadership is always dependent upon the context, but the context is established by the relationships.

Leadership and the New Science (1992)

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

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

In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

Margaret Wheatley (1992)

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Robert F. Kennedy

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson The Idler (1758)

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

Bertolt Brecht Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976)

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