Presentation given by Margaret Wheatley on March 28 to alumni of the Nyenrode Business University. Location: Nyenrode Business University Breukelen, the Netherlands

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2. What is the Leadership
Needed for This Time?
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3. How
do
you
choose
to
use
your
power
and
influence
in
service
for
this
5me?
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4. Do
we
try
to
fix
things?
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5. Do
we
give
up
in
despair?
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6. Do
we
go
to
ba<le?
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7. Do
we
walk
away?
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8. Do
we
collapse
into
cynicism?
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9. Do we just focus on creating a good life?
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10. Global Dynamics Beyond Our Control
Impacting Leadership
Time Compression
Burgeoning Bureaucracy
Distraction
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11. Time Compression
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12. Time Compression
Overloading
Multi-loading
Perpetual loading
“Many organizations expect employees to work
at levels two to four times higher than
capacity.”
Harvard Business Review 2010
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16. Morbidly
Obese
Bureaucracy
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17. Proliferating
rules &
regulations
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18. Ossifying amount of reports and measures
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19. The
Tokyo
Electric
Power
Company
(Tepco)
had
originally
said
the
radiaDon
emi<ed
by
the
leaking
water
was
around
100
millisieverts
an
hour.
However,
the
company
said
the
equipment
used
to
make
that
recording
could
only
read
measurements
of
up
to
100
millisieverts.
The
new
recording,
using
a
more
sensiDve
device,
showed
a
level
of
1,800
millisieverts
an
hour.
Measurement
Gone
Mad-­‐-­‐Fukushima
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20.
Distracted
What did you say?
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25. Maslow’s NEW
Hierarchy
of
Needs
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27. Our
culture
operates
as
a
giant
centrifuge
extractor
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28. Humans
can
get
through
anything
as
long
as
we’re
together
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29. To
create
health,
create
more
connec5ons
Biological principle
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30. How
are
these
dynamics
showing
up
in
your
life?
1. What’s
your
level
of
exhausDon?
2. How
oOen
do
you
feel
stressed
or
anxious?
3. How
are
your
relaDonships:
work,
home,
friends?
4. How
oOen
do
you
get
angry
or
frustrated?
5. How
distracted
are
you?
Memory
loss???
6. How
quick
are
you
to
judge
and
blame?
If
you
con5nue
this
way
for
another
year,
who
will
you
be?
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31. We’re
lost,
but
we’re
making
good
5me
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33. How
do
you
choose
to
use
your
power
and
influence
in
service
for
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5me?
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34.
The
whole
globe
is
shook
up,
so
what
are
you
going
to
do
when
things
are
falling
apart?
You’re
either
going
to
become
more
fundamentalist
and
try
to
hold
things
together,
or
you’re
going
to
forsake
the
old
ambiDons
and
goals
and
live
life
as
an
experiment,
making
it
up
as
you
go
along.
Pema
Chödrön,
Buddhist
Teacher
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35. Human
socieDes
are
addicted
to
their
ruling
ideas
and
their
received
way
of
life,
and
they
are
fanaDcal
in
their
defense..
.
Instead
of
changing
their
minds,
leaders
redouble
their
efforts
to
do
what
no
longer
works,
wooden-­‐headedly
persisDng
in
error
unDl
the
bi<er
end.
William
Ophuls
Immoderate
Greatness
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36. When
an
old
culture
is
dying,
the
new
culture
is
born
from
a
few
people
who
are
not
afraid
to
be
insecure.
Rodolf
Bahro
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37. Warriors
for
the
Human
Spirit
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38. Warrior
=
One
Who
is
Brave
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39. Warrior
=
One
who
is
brave
Brave
enough
to
believe
in
human
goodness
Brave
enough
to
not
use
aggression
or
fear
to
accomplish
their
purposes
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41. Perseverance
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42. A knife suspended
over a heart
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43. Pay
exquisite
aKen5on
to
rela5onships
Be
vigilant
to
avoid
the
polarizing
dynamics
&
blaming
of
this
Dme
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44. Remember
why
you
do
your
work
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45. Reclaim
Dme
to
think
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46. Periodically,
take
Dme
to
reflect
on
the
big
picture
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47. Make
sure
you
have
a
prac5ce
for
finding
peace
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48. A
Prophecy
from
the
Hopi
Na2on
Elders
Here
is
a
river
flowing
now
very
fast.
It
is
so
great
and
swiO
that
there
are
those
who
will
be
afraid,
who
will
try
to
hold
on
to
the
shore.
They
are
being
torn
apart
and
will
suffer
greatly.
Know
that
the
river
has
its
desDnaDon.
The
elders
say
we
must
let
go
of
the
shore.
Push
off
into
the
middle
of
the
river,
and
keep
our
heads
above
water.
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49.
And
I
say
see
who
is
there
with
you
and
celebrate.
At
this
Dme
in
history,
we
are
to
take
nothing
personally,
least
of
all
ourselves,
for
the
moment
we
do,
our
spiritual
growth
and
journey
come
to
a
halt.
The
Dme
of
the
lone
wolf
is
over.
Gather
yourselves.
Banish
the
word
struggle
from
your
aftude
and
vocabulary.
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50. All that we do now
must be done in a
sacred manner and in
celebration.
For we are the ones we
have been waiting for.
from the Hopi Elders
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