On disolving of the old ways by Margaret J. Wheatley

Author	Margaret J. Wheatley Speaker, Writer, Consultant & President of The Berkana Institute
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The old ways are dissolving and the new has not yet shown itself. If this is true then we must engage with one another differently, as explorers and discoverers.

Margaret J. Wheatley Speaker, Writer, Consultant & President of The Berkana Institute

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 The old ways are dissolving and the new has not yet shown itself. If this is true then we must engage with one another differently, as explorers and discoverers.

Margaret J. Wheatley, Speaker, Writer, Consultant & President of The Berkana Institute
Leadership and the New Science 

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 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 the relaxed spaces of being human.

In all of our design of meetings, engagement, planning or whatever, if you aren’t building conversation into the process, you will not benefit from the collective power and wisdom of humans thinking together.

These are not “soft” processes.

This is how wars get started and how wars end.

It’s how money is made, lives started, freedom realized. It is the core human organizing competency.

Margaret J. Wheatley, Speaker, Writer, Consultant & President of The Berkana Institute

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