This is an expanded list of the contents of this blook.
- Category: The Challenge of Complexity
- Category: Principles of Conversational Leadership
- Category: Our Evolutionary Journey
- Introduction: Our Evolutionary Journey
- We Are Stardust
- Our Past Evolutionary Journey
- What Does Our Future Biological Evolution Hold?
- Post-biological Evolution **
- Understanding Teleology **
- The Meaning of Purpose **
- Fundamental Questions About Human Life **
- Why Does Human Life Exist? **
- What Is the Purpose of Life? **
- What Is the Purpose of Humanity **
- Longtermism
- Category: The Power of Conversation
- Introduction: the Power of Conversation
- What Is a Real Conversation?
- The Language of Conversation and Speech
- The Value of Conversation **
- The Purposes of Conversation
- Conversational Capacities
- Levels of Conversation **
- Dialogue Vs Debate **
- Conversation Is a Dance **
- Life Is a Conversation **
- Freedom of Speech
- Conversation Is More Than Communication
- Meetings and Conversations Serve Two Purposes
- Why Face-to-face Interaction Matters **
- Friends with Cognitive Benefits
- Cognitive Diversity
- Turn-taking in Conversation
- Our Most Powerful Technology Is Conversation
- The Myth of Thamus and Theuth
- Our Brains Are Designed for Conversation
- Connecting Minds
- Thinking Together
- Hard Conversation
- Let’s Have More Interesting Conversations
- Conversation Sharpens the Saw
- Organizational Conversation **
- Bake Conversation Into All That We Do **
- Betrayed by Our Laughter
- Conversation Is Not a Panacea for All Our Problems **
- Oracy
- Rhetoric
- What Is the Difference Between Rhetoric and Oracy?
- Category: Conversational Leadership
- Category: Practicing Conversational Leadership
- Category: Conversational Leadership Skills
- Introduction: Conversational Leadership Skills
- Oracy Is a Core Conversational Leadership Skill
- Conversational Self-awareness **
- Conversational Awareness **
- Empathy **
- Cultural Competence **
- Open Mindedness **
- Critical Thinking **
- Active Listening **
- The Art of Navigating Conversations
- Conversational Continuous Self-improvement **
- Difficult Conversations
- Impossible Conversations
- Category: Conversational Leadership Habits
- Introduction: Conversational Habits
- Make Time to Talk
- Talk More
- Talk with Strangers
- Make Big Talk
- Connect More
- Connect People
- Eat with Others
- Construct Steel Arguments Not Straw Ones
- Ask Questions **
- Converse in Good Faith
- Say So, If We Don’t Have an Opinion
- Carpe Diem – Seize the Day
- Admit When We Are Wrong **
- Speak Up
- Speak Last
- Speak in Plain Language
- Turn Monologues Into Dialogues
- Take Responsibility for the Conversation **
- Speak with Less Conviction
- Disagree Constructively
- Reduce Emailing and Texting **
- Show Respect
- Tell the Truth
- Listen to Ignite Thinking
- Listen Empathically **
- Listen with the Intent to Understand
- Encourage Dissent
- Don’t Give Advice
- Banter with Care
- Stop Ditting
- Hold Strong Opinions Weakly **
- Don’t Give Speeches
- Avoid Anonymity
- Category: Conversational Leadership Methods
- Introduction: Conversational Methods
- After-action Reviews
- Anecdote Circles
- Conversation Covenant
- Brainstorming
- Brown-bag Lunches **
- C-group
- Bridging Divides **
- Community of Innovation **
- Community of Practice **
- Connection Before Content
- Conversare Events
- Debate
- The Dérive
- Dialogue
- Dialogic Organization Development
- Flipped Teaching
- The Power of Huddles
- The Oracy Lab
- Ongoing Performance Conversations
- Open Space Technology **
- Peer Learning
- Peer Assist
- Pitching by Conversation **
- Randomised Coffee Trials
- Ritual Dissent **
- Speed Consulting
- Speed-conversation
- Street Epistemology
- Reverse Brainstorming Café
- Theodore Zeldin’s Conversation Dinners
- Town Hall Meeting **
- Unhurried Conversations **
- World Café
- Category: Discourse and Narrative
- Category: Community
- Introduction: Community **
- Caring
- What Makes a Real Community?
- What Is Communityship?
- Politics Is Life
- We All Have the Freedom to Choose If We Choose To
- Lashon Hara
- Gossip and Lashon Hara
- Leadership Is a Practice Not a Position of Authority
- Ownership, Not Buy-in
- Shared Meaning
- Culture
- Reframing Questions
- Exploring the Multifaceted Roles of Trust in Relationships and Society
- Raising the Ships on the Sea
- Invitation and Community **
- Everyone Believes They’re the Good Guy
- Working Together **
- We’re All Different **
- Category: The Knowledge Café
- Introduction: Knowledge Café
- The Knowledge Café Metaphor
- A Knowledge Café Is a Gathering
- What’s New About the Knowledge Café?
- Knowledge Café History
- Knowledge Café Outcomes
- Knowledge Café Applications
- Knowledge Cafés and Communities of Practice **
- The Differences Between the Knowledge Café and the World Café
- Videos: Knowledge Cafés
- Knowledge Café: Getting Started
- Category: Knowledge Café Principles
- Introduction: Knowledge Café Principles
- Knowledge Café Principle: Conversation Is Sovereign
- Knowledge Café Principle: Everyone Has an Equal Voice
- Knowledge Café Principle: Create a Safe Space
- Knowledge Café Principle: No Preconceived Outcomes
- Knowledge Café Principle: Preserve the Flow
- Knowledge Café Principle: Engage in Small Groups
- Knowledge Café Principle: Dialogue Not Debate
- Category: Knowledge Café Process
- Introduction: Knowledge Café Process
- Knowledge Café: Process
- Knowledge Café: the Host
- Knowledge Café: the Speaker
- Knowledge Café: the Talk
- Knowledge Café: Table Hosts
- Knowledge Café: Small Group Conversations
- Knowledge Café: Moving Between Groups
- Knowledge Café: Circle Conversation
- Knowledge Café: Sharing Actionable Insights
- Knowledge Café: Going Off-topic
- Knowledge Café: No Report-outs
- Category: Knowledge Café Design
- Introduction: Knowledge Café Design **
- Knowledge Café: Design Checklist
- Knowledge Café: Purpose
- Knowledge Café: Roles
- Knowledge Café: Duration
- Knowledge Café: Naming
- Knowledge Café: Who to Invite
- Knowledge Café: Invitation
- Knowledge Café: Number of Participants
- Knowledge Café: Triggering the Conversation
- Knowledge Café: Setting the Context with Video **
- Knowledge Café: Posing the Question
- Knowledge Café: Small Group Design
- Knowledge Café: Large Group Design **
- Knowledge Café: Required Resources **
- Knowledge Café: Conversational Topics
- Knowledge Café: Measuring Success
- Knowledge Café: Capturing Outcomes
- Knowledge Café: Graphic Recording **
- Knowledge Café: Background Music **
- Category: Knowledge Café Variations
- Category: Knowledge Café Space
- Introduction: Knowledge Café Space
- Knowledge Café: Choosing the Venue
- Knowledge Café: Choosing the Room
- Knowledge Café: Choosing the Tables
- Knowledge Café: Cafés with No Tables
- Knowledge Café: Laying Out the Room
- Knowledge Café: No Flip Charts or Butcher Paper
- Knowledge Café: Refreshments
- Knowledge Café: Lecture Theatre
- Knowledge Cafés at Conferences
- Knowledge Café: Microphones
- Category: Knowledge Café Applications
- Category: Conversational Learning
- Category: Conversational Stories
- Introduction: Conversational Stories
- Knowledge Cafés at NASA
- The Virtual Random Café
- Knowledge Cafés at ING Bank, Netherlands
- Knowledge Cafés at Johnson & Johnson
- Knowledge Cafés at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
- Knowledge Cafés at PSMA Australia
- Groucho Club Sales Café
- IBM SE Asia Sales Cafés
- A Knowledge Café at Viva
- Passion at the Gurteen Knowledge Café
- Conversation in Hong Kong
- Gurteen Knowledge Café: Entrenched and Entrained Thinking
- A Conversation Dinner in Turin
- The Huawei Break the Book Community
- Knowledge Cafés at the European Patent Office
- Knowledge Café in Zurich, Switzerland
- Knowledge Cafés at National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago
- A Knowledge Café in English, French and Russian
- Knowledge Cafés at Equinor **
- Sugar Rush at the Knowledge Café
- Randomised Coffee Trials at Red Cross Red Crescent
- Intimate Conversations
- Hong Kong MTR Coffee Evenings and Liaison Trains
- Equinor Management Training Cafés
- Al Jazeera Cafe
- Huawei Transforms a Global Conference with a Knowledge Market
- Knowledge Café at Regent’s University February 2024
- Ericsson Story **
- Jakarta Dutch Cultural Centre 2007 **
- Blog Posts About the Gurteen Knowledge Café
- Category: Conversational Spaces
- Category: Conversational Environments
- Category: Participatory Conferences
- Category: Strategic Conversations
- Category: Innovation
- Category: Motivation and Engagement
- Category: Complexity
- Introduction: Complexity
- What Is a System? **
- Complex Is Not the Same as Complicated
- The Cynefin Framework
- Vector Theory of Change **
- Safe-to-fail Experiments
- Dispositional States **
- The Nature of Problems **
- There Are No Solutions to Complex Problems
- Unintended Consequences
- Adaptive Leadership **
- The Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Category: Knowledge Management
- Introduction: Knowledge Management
- Data, Information and Knowledge
- The DIKW (data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom) Pyramid
- The Importance of Tacit Knowledge
- Ways of Knowing
- Knowledge Only Exists in the Mind
- Knowledge and Information Management (KIM)
- Don’t Do Knowledge Management **
- Knowledge Is Not Power
- The Four Levels of Knowledge Management
- Is “useless Knowledge” Useless?
- Knowledge Sharing **
- What Is a Knowledge Worker?
- We Know So Much but Understand So Little
- Category: Artificial Intelligence
- Introduction: Artificial Intelligence
- The Spectrum of Intelligence
- The Relationship Between Intelligence and Evolution
- Human Intelligence
- Programmed Intelligence
- Animal Intelligence
- Biological Intelligence
- Systemic Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence **
- What Are Chatbots?
- Limitations of Chatbots
- Why Chatbots Can’t Have Real Human Conversations
- Uses of Chatbots
- Chatbots and Genai in Knowledge Management
- Chatbots to Analyze Conversations and Presentations
- Chatbots as Critical Thinking Partners
- Evaluate Sources and Evidence
- Analyze Assumptions and Biases
- Play Devil’s Advocate
- Practice Analogical Thinking
- Analyze Logical Fallacies **
- Historical and Contextual Analysis **
- Summarize Conflicting Perspectives **
- Deconstructing Arguments **
- Explore Hypothetical Scenarios **
- Category: Small Group Conversations
- Category: Virtual Conversations
- Category: The Knowledge Delusion
- Introduction: Knowledge Delusion
- What Are Beliefs?
- Reasoning **
- Belief Systems
- Attitudes
- What Are Mindsets?
- Values
- What Are Morals?
- Knowledge and Information **
- The Argumentative Theory of Human Reason
- The Knowledge Delusion
- Knowledge Is Communal
- Distributed Cognition
- Opinion Polarization
- Rethinking Our Beliefs
- Trust & Belief Formation
- The Allure of Simple Stories
- Our Tribal Nature
- Tribal Thinking
- Science Curiosity
- Discrediting People **
- The Global Information Ecosystem
- Pollution of the Global Information Ecosystem
- Uncertainty **
- Filter Bubbles, Epistemic Bubbles and Echo Chambers
- What Are Cognitive Biases?
- Motivated Reasoning **
- The Difference Between Sense-making and Meaning-making
- Category: History and Philosophy of Conversation
- Introduction: History and Philosophy of Conversation **
- History of Conversation **
- Philosophy of Conversation **
- Etymology of Conversation
- The Origin of Language **
- The Emergence of Conversation in Early Cultures **
- Conversation in Ancient Greek Society **
- Conversation in Ancient Roman Society **
- Cicero’s Sermo **
- The Remergence of Sermo During the Renaissance **
- The Conversational Enlightenment **
- The Conversible World **
- Two Realms of Intellectual Discourse **
- Category: Democracy
- Category: Neuroscience of Conversation
- Category: Appendix
- The History and Development of the Socratic Method **
- The History and Development of the Scientific Method **
- The Two Critical Inquiry Pillars of Civilization **
- Larry Mcenerney’s Insights on Good Writing **
- Conversation Theory **
- Protected: Athiests
- Write to Think **
- Spectrum Street Epistemology
- Cognitive Surplus
- Pay It Forward **
- Chatgpt: Your Critical Thinking Partner
- Orality **
- Multipolar Traps
- The Jazz of Conversations
- Avoiding Modern-day Colonialism
- Relationships **
- Spirituality
- Improving Informal Conversations **
- New Age Mumbo Jumbo
- Pseudoscience
- Circles of Engagement **
- Signal-to-noise Ratio
- What Would Make a Better World?
- The Enlightenment
- Enlightenment 2.0
- A Brief History of Knowledge
- We Live in Two Worlds
- Predicting the Future Is a Fools’ Errand **
- Personal Power **
- Global Consciousness
- The Talmud **
- The Anthropocene
- Conversational Leadership Framework **
- Curiosity **
- Influential Power **
- Measures, Targets, Rewards and Punishments
- From Knowledge to Agency
- Consensus **
- Zoom Virtual Knowledge Cafés **
- The Difference Between Dialogue and Debate **
- Verbal Judo **
- Contra-conversations **
- Changing People **
- Reversing Cause and Effect
- Be Open and Transparent **
- Learning **
- Noise and Distractions Can Boost Your Creativity **
- When It Comes to Lectures, Appearances Can Be Deceiving **
- The Mind Is a Fire to Be Kindled
- Learn to Listen and to Tell the Truth
- Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups **
- Designing Powerful Questions
- The Mehrabian Myth
- Positive Deviance
- The New Science of Building Great Teams **
- Hawthorne Effect Myth
- Is Noise Always Bad? **
- Become a Conversation Architect
- Change **
- Conversational Post-project Reviews **
- Everything Is Fragmented **
- Entrenched Thinking
- Entrained Thinking
- Managers Are Employees Too **
- Category: Uncategorized
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