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ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING

"The world is richer than it is possible to express in any single language." Ilya Prigogine

"To my mind there must be, at the bottom of it all, not an equation, but an utterly simple idea. And to me that idea, when we finally discover it, will be so compelling, so inevitable, that we will say to one another, 'Oh, how beautiful. How could it have been otherwise?' John Archibald Wheeler

Margaret Wheatley

"It's a world where change and constant creation signaled new ways of maintaining order and structure."

It's a matter of learning to ask the right questions and avoid contradictions.

Road to wisdom - encourages us to sit in the unfamiliar seat of not knowing and open ourselves to radically new ideas.

In new science - this new way of thinking - there is a new kind of freedom, where it is more rewarding to explore than to reach conclusions, more satisfying to wonder than to know, and more exciting to search than to stay put.

You think that because you understand one you must understand two, because one and one makes two. But you must also understand and

FORMS change but the mission remains the same.

Change happens in jumps. Beyond our powers of precise prediction.

In life, the issue is not control, but dynamic connectedness.

Margaret Wheatley in A Simpler Way

Everything is in a constant process of discovery and creating. Life uses messes to get to well-ordered solutions. Life is intent on finding what works, not what's "right." Life creates more possibilities as it engages with opportunities. Life is attracted to order. Life organizes around identity. Everything participates in the creation and evolution of its neighbors. (13 & 14)

Who we become together, will always be different than who we are alone. New relationships create new capacities. (18)

Every change we make in ourselves, every exploratory path we follow, changes many others. Our explorations even change the rules by which we change.

Experimentation doesn't use up possibilities; it creates more. (20)

Stability is found in freedom - not conformity and compliance.

Who we are becomes an expression of who we decided to be. (48)

EVERY CHANGE is fostered by a CHANGE in SELF-PERCEPTION. (50)

EVERY CHANGE OCCURS only if we IDENTIFY WITH IT. (51)

Our eyes only pick up 20% of the outside world 80% of the information that the brain works with is information already in the brain. (49)

Too often, organizations destroy our desires.

IDENTIY includes such dimensions as history, values, actions, core beliefs, competencies, principles, purpose, mission. IDENTITY IS THE SOURCE of ORGANIZATION. (58)

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LIFE: Thoughts to Contemplate Life By

The beater and the beaten: were players of a game ephemeral as a dream. - Muso

Once the game is over the king and the pawn go back into the same box. - Italian Proverb

The problem with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin

Many individuals, have like uncut diamonds, shining qualitities beneath a rough exterior. - Juvenal

Whatever we perceive well, we express clearly. -Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. - Claude M. Bristol

The act of living is more like wrestling than dancing. -Marcus Aurelius

Whether you think you can or you can't -You are right. - Henry Ford

In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by the way which is the way of ignorance. - TS Eliot

Action is character, right? What a person does is what he is, not what he says. - Syd Field

Expect nothing; be prepared for anything. -Samurai saying

He who can copy - can do. - Leondardo da Vinci

They conquer who believe they can. - Emerson

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. - Seneca

FIRST you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination. - Joseph Campbell

The superior man loves his soul, the inferior man loves his property. - Confuscius

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. - Syrus

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. - George Bernard Shaw

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few people engage in it. - Henry Ford

When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless. - John Gardner

Few men ever drop dead from overwork, but many quietly curl up and die because of undersatisfaction. - Sidney J. Harris

Work to become - not to acquire. -Elbert Hubbard

That action is BEST which provides the greatest happiness for the greatest number. - Francis Hutcheson

All the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. - Helen Keller