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“A system-wide transformation can be achieved only when everyone takes a step forward together, like a puzzle that will be solved only when we turn all the keys at the same time.”

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Book:5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
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“We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change. The future of Organization Development belongs to methods that affirm, compel, and accelerate anticipatory learning involving larger and larger levels of collectivity.”

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Author:David Cooperrider
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“One of the great errors organizations make is shutting down what is a natural, life-enhancing process-chaos. We are terrified of chaos. As a manager, it signals failure. But if you move out of control and into an appreciation of natural order, you understand that the only way a system changes is when it is far from equilibrium, when it moves from the 'quiet' we treasure and is confronted with the choice to die or reorganize. And you can't reorganize to a higher level unless you risk the perils of the path through chaos.”

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Author:Margaret J. Wheatley
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“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy
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“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”

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Author:William James
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“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

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Book:The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
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“Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’”

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Book:The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition
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