Dr. Cindy Ehresman
Lead 530
22 September 2018
Insights and Analysis 3
1. What does Meg Wheatley mean by "participation is not a choice"?
Meg Wheatley means that, in organization change the management should not leave the workers to do what they feel like doing in any given situation or rather force them to participate in ideas that they are not comfortable to. All the employees are required to work together to come up with better solutions of how to effect change; this will allow management to avoid imposing their own ideas to the workers but instead allow them to create some of the solutions.
2. Briefly explain what Wheatley refers to as a paradox created when reaching group decisions.
A paradox is a contradictory statement that neither fully agrees or denies something; for instance, in the past human beings felt the need to grow as a community yet some years later the instinct to be together was materializing things which cause fragmentation of communities. Humans beings want to be together but its paradoxical because they want to uplift themselves, but with anterior motives of benefiting self (Wheatley, 2017) hence satisfying the whole group but in that they also want individual needs to be satisfied which is contradicting in a way.
References
Wheatley, M. J. (2017). Who do we choose to be?: facing reality, claiming leadership, restoring sanity. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.