Scientific discoveries from biology to quantum physics reveal new understanding of how the world works, and these amazing findings can have profound effect on our understanding of how we live and work together. Margaret Wheatley captures these discoveries and the insights they provide beautifully in her book Leadership and the new science: Discovering order in a chaotic world. If you’re interested in changing your organization or your community, there are some wonderful lessons we can learn from nature. Here are a couple of ideas that stuck with me after reading her book.

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” Ralph Waldo Emerson I work with a person who is well known for her love of purple.  Whatever it is, if it can be found in purple, all kinds of people will help it get to her desk.  It isn’t that she has
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People try so hard to look and sound smart. They use big words and complex sentence structure. They speak of “paradigms”, quote “what the literature says” and write massive tomes to try to impress. But if you want to succeed in life, politics or business the secret is to keep it simple. People need clarity
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