The Power of Spirit Quotes

“As people think and work together, a fabric of shared meaning comes into being.”
― Harrison Owen, The Power of Spirit: How Organizations Transform

“Up until now, some of us actually thought that we created and organized the systems in which we work. But should it turn out that natural system…are truly self-organizing, much of that effort was wasted.”
― Harrison Owen, The Power of Spirit: How Organizations Transform

“…most of the ways in which we know how to engineer change…are not effective. Given a…logical problem to solve, we are superb… But…the fundamental premises are different, which means that our logic is without power.”
― Harrison Owen, The Power of Spirit: How Organizations Transform

“Open some space, and Spirit will certainly show up. Allow the magic of self-organization to work for you, and the complex adaptive system that we are will find its own power.”
― Harrison Owen, The Power of Spirit: How Organizations Transform

“It is only in the dance between chaos and order that life progresses.”
― Harrison Owen, Power of Spirit

“It is the dance between chaos and order that is truly creative.”
― Harrison Owen, Power of Spirit

“… don't we all know that good work is rarely performed by people who don't care to do it?”
― Harrison Owen, Power of Spirit