Who Do We Choose To Be?: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity
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I know it is possible for leaders to use their power and influence, their insight and compassion, to lead people back to an understanding of who we are as human beings, to create the conditions for our basic human qualities of generosity, contribution, community and love to be evoked no matter what. I know it is possible to experience grace and joy in the midst of tragedy and loss. I know it is possible to create islands of sanity in the midst of wildly disruptive seas. I know it is possible because I have worked with leaders over many years in places that knew chaos and breakdown long before this moment. And I have studied enough history to know that such leaders always arise when they are most needed. Now it's our turn.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Margaret Wheatley is president emerita of the Berkana Institute. She has been a consultant since 1973, working in virtually every type of organization on all continents. She is coauthor of A Simpler Way and author of Turning to One Another and Finding Our Way as well as many articles, videos, and DVDs. She has also worked as a public school teacher, a Peace Corps volunteer in Korea, and as an associate professor of management at the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University and Cambridge College, Massachusetts.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In this book, Wheatley offers a perspective on how to engage sanely with the destructive dynamics of our time. she seeks to understand the forces that have created this present world that harms most and benefits few. Facing reality can help us discern how to use our influence in service of this time. Both rebirth and death are possible outcomes. We must, however, prepare for disintegration and collapse before we can leap to new ways of being. This book is a must-read for all of us whose involvement in the life of others is primed to inspire!