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BOOK REVIEW: Finding Our Way: Leadership For an Uncertain Time (By Margaret J. Wheatley, Berrett-Koehler, 2005, ISBN #978-1-57675-317-0)
Finding Our Way challenges us to see the enterprises we lead in new light. It presents our organizations as living, substantially self-organizing systems of interacting human beings, not elaborate machines. Tools such as performance standards, metrics, missions, goals, project plans and job descriptions can certainly guide and influence employee behavior but they cannot force it or control it. This reality can frustrate the control-oriented manager. Wheatley offers several strategies to lead effectively in such systems.

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The Business Bill of Rights
As Margaret Thatcher once said “Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy”
The Only Object of Life
Margaret Fuller wrote: “Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.” I love this quote and imagine this perspective had a profound impact on the quality of her life. If each of us shared Margaret’s outlook and truly lived from this perspective in all of its fullness, what would be different for us and those whom we touch? There are many possibilities.
Hang on...
The blessing of life also brings with is a multitude of adversities we all face - challenges with career, family, finances, relationships, feeling overwhelmed or struggling with depression. Recently, continued negative news on many fronts can tend to magnify these challenges in our lives. I was personally uplifted as recalled an inspiring address given by Wallace A. Kennedy, Professor of Psychology at my alma mater, Florida State University. He was talking to the students of Maclay School in Tallahassee on November 17, 1981. One of their classmates, Margaret, had just committed suicide, and they were in distress.

BOOK REVIEW: Finding Our Way: Leadership For an Uncertain Time (By Margaret J. Wheatley, Berrett-Koehler, 2005, ISBN #978-1-57675-317-0)
Finding Our Way challenges us to see the enterprises we lead in new light. It presents our organizations as living, substantially self-organizing systems of interacting human beings, not elaborate machines. Tools such as performance standards, metrics, missions, goals, project plans and job descriptions can certainly guide and influence employee behavior but they cannot force it or control it. This reality can frustrate the control-oriented manager. Wheatley offers several strategies to lead effectively in such systems.
How is your Quantum Physics? You may need it to Improve your Organization’s Performance!
Organizational cultures are like magnetic fields that cannot be seen but are strongly felt throughout the organization! Organizational communication is like a gravitational force that pulls employees in the right direction! Interactions between members of the organization are like sub-atomic particles - it is not the particles themselves that produce powerful outputs - it is the interactions between the particles that generates the power! So says Margaret Wheatly in her book Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World.
Organizational Change - Of Ferns and Fractals
Last time your took a walk in nature did you ask yourself “who controls all this stuff?” I would venture to say that you did not. Most of us take a walk just to enjoy the fresh air-but not Margaret Wheatley. Margaret looked at the natural world and asked herself: “how can there be so much order in a nature without anyone in control of it?”. For example how is there so much symmetry in a plant such as a fern?

LEADERS DISPLAY COURAGE BY CHOICE NOT BY CHANCE.
The position does not make leader, leader make the position. These are proved by Margaret Thatcher, Mohandas Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Sir Martin Luther King.
Behavioural Intelligence - Learning From World Leaders' Speech Secrets
If you want people to be engaged with your speech, presentation or written text you need to take some lessons from the orators, politicians and world leaders and build them into your material. Look at any great speech in recent history, whether it’s from Winston Churchill or Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King or Margaret Thatcher, Barack Obama or Nelson Mandela you’ll find some or all of the following tools of influence, persuasion and engagement.
Leadership - Some Thoughts About Greatness
Of all the qualities needed for leadership, only one is indispensable - courage. Without it, all the others are more or less useless. Courage has been shown by all who we recognize as true leaders, from Alexander The Great to Margaret Thatcher.
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