A Simpler Way

by Margaret Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers

There is a simpler way to organise human endeavour.
It requires a new way of being in the world.
It requires being in the world without fear.
Being in the world with play and creativity.
Seeking after what's possible.
Being willing to learn and be surprised.

This simpler way to organise human endeavour
requires a belief that the world is inherently orderly.
The world seeks organisation.
It does not need us humans to organise it.

This simpler way summons forth what is best about us.
It asks us to understand human nature differently,
more optimistically.
It identifies us as creative.
It acknowledges that we seek after meaning.
It asks us to be less serious, yet more purposeful,
about our work and our lives.
It does not separate play from the nature of being.

The world of a simpler way is a world we already know.
We may not have seen it clearly,
but we have been living in it all our lives.
It is a world that is more welcoming,
more hospitable to our humanness.
Who we are and what is best about us can more easily flourish.

The world of a simpler way has a natural and spontaneous tendency toward organisation.
It seeks order.
Whatever chaos is present at the start,
when elements combine, systems of organisation appear.
Life is attracted to order --
order gained through wandering explorations
into new relationships and new possibilities.