"Openness to the environment over time spawns a stronger system, one that is less susceptible to externally induced change. [...] Because it partners with its environment, the system develops increasing autonomy from the environment and also develops new capacities that make it increasingly resourceful." (Margaret J Wheatley, "Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World", 1992)
"The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - need not be signs ofan impending disorder that will destroy us. Instead, fluctuations are the primary source of creativity." (Margaret J Wheatley, "Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World", 1992)
"Leadership is always dependent upon the context, but the context is established by the relationships." (Margaret J Wheatley, "Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World", 1992)
"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 J Wheatley, "Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World", 1992)
"In a complex system, there is no such thing as simple cause and effect." (Margaret J Wheatley, "It's An Interconnected World", 2002)
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