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Understanding
Process, Participation and Sustainable Management Margaret Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science (Berrett-Kohler 1992)
Process is as important as product in building sustainability.
Full participation of all affected parties in decisions and planning is
a key to management that motivates and affirms the creative powers of each
individual. We are discovering
more about these processes as we learn more about the universe and life as we
know it on earth with tools like quantum physics, evolutionary biology and
astronomy.
“Think of organizational data as a wave, moving through space developing more and more potential explanations. If this wave meets up with one observer, it will collapse into one interpretation. All other potentialities are lost by that act of observation. An organization swimming in many interpretations can discuss, combine, and build on them. The outcome has to be a much richer sense of what needs to be done. The more participants we engage in this perspective universe, the wiser we become.” Margaret Wheatley
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