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Sounds True.com, guest is Margaret Wheatley.

Meg is an American writer and management consultant who studies organizational behavior.

Her approach includes systems thinking, theories of change, chaos theory, leadership

and the learning organization, particularly its capacity to self-organize.

Meg is an author of nine books, including the best-selling book,

Leadership and the New Science,

and her new book, Who Do We Choose to Be?

Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity,

Where she turns to the new science of living systems to help leaders persevere in

this time of great turmoil. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Meg and I spoke about the cyclical nature of life

and how we are currently in a destructive end phase of a cycle of history in the United States, how we need to see this clearly, and also

the despair we can feel in looking at this reality without buying into the myth of progress.

We also talked about her teaching on becoming warriors for the human spirit and how such

warriors refrain from fear and aggression and engage in

meaningful work in the context of community. Finally we talked about what it might mean for each of us to create islands

of sanity right where we are during this particular time in human history. Here's my very moving and deep

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