Meg Wheatley’s poetic reconciliation of organizational and scientific principles became the basis for the ground-breaking and award-winning bestseller Leadership and the New Science. She has written ten books and been honored for her pathfinding work by many professional associations, universities, and organizations.
Chapter 1Flawless
M. J. Wheatley
- For far too many years
- I have wanted to be flawless,
- Perfecting my pursuits,
- I bargained all for love.
- For all those many years
- I made masks of my own doing,
- Pursuing my perfection,
- I found I was pursued.
- And then
- one day
- I fell
- sprawled
- flattened
- on the fertile
- ground of self.
- Naked in dirt
- no mask
- no bargains
- I raised my soiled face
- and there
- you were.
- I struggled to stand.
- Dirt from my body fell
- in your eyes.
- Your hand reached for me.
- Blinded,
- your hand reached
- me.
- There is, in all of us, the place of pure perfection.
- We discover its geography together.
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