Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.
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- Margaret Wheatley
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- Margaret Wheatley (2006) "Leadership Lessons for The Real World". Leader to Leader Magazine, Summer 2006
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