Connected: the Amazing Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis

 
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•  Actor-network Theory (ANT) Actor-Network Theory
•  Artificial Intelligence and the Quest for Knowledge Exploring the parallels between Plato's Phaedrus and the challenges of GenAI
•  Avoiding Modern-day Colonialism Colonialism: the dominance, control, and exploitation by one group over another
•  Belief Systems Our beliefs are not isolated pieces of data that we can take and discard at will
•  Cognitive Surplus Untapping our human potential
•  Complex Adaptive Systems ** Complexity
•  Complex Is Not the Same as Complicated We tend to use "complex" to describe things that are actually just complicated or challenging.
•  Complex Systems ** Many parts interacting with each other in multiple ways
•  Complex Systems and Complex Adaptive Systems ** Complexity
•  Conclusion: Two Worlds Living in two worlds
•  Congruence, Coherence, and Contingent Truth Building a framework for understanding
•  Connect More Connect more broadly, more deeply
•  Connecting Minds Connecting and synchronising minds
•  Connection Before Content Without relatedness, no work can occur
•  Conversational Leadership Framework ** A framework to help understand the concept
•  Conversational Leadership Mindset Developing a Conversational Leadership mindset
•  Conversational Self-awareness Being aware of our own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors during a conversation
•  Dispositional States ** Complexity
•  Enlightenment 2.0 A New Enlightenment for the 21st century
•  Explore Other Perspectives Use the chatbot to broaden your understanding of a subject
•  From Enlightenment to Entanglement Adapting to the complexities of an interconnected world
•  From Knowledge to Agency Developing agency in a changing world - cultivating the capacity to act
•  Global Consciousness The capacity and disposition to understand and act upon global issues
•  II. Embrace Complexity We need to understand complexity & its implications
•  Introduction: Conversational Leadership Conversational Leadership
•  Introduction: Innovation The introduction of something new
•  Introduction: Principles of Conversational Leadership The Principles of Conversational Leadership
•  Introduction: Two Worlds From evolution to entanglement
•  Knowledge Café: Conversational Topics Some examples
•  Knowledge Revolutions The evolution of knowledge
•  Leadership Is a Practice Not a Position of Authority Anyone can practice leadership
•  Mirror Neurons The key to social cognition
•  Multipolar Traps or Moloch Traps Acting against our collective interests
•  Narrative and Story ** Narrative provides a way of looking at and interpreting the world.
•  Ongoing Performance Conversations From annual performance reviews to on-going performance conversations
•  Oral Public Discourse Verbal expression aimed at a public audience
•  Our World Is a Mess The metacrisis
•  Our World Is Complex It is a VUCA world
•  Our World Is Hyperconnected The world is an increasingly connected place
•  Practice Analogical Thinking Request analogies or comparisons from the chatbot to help you better understand complex concepts
•  Randomised Coffee Trials at Red Cross Red Crescent Virtual coffee meetings across the globe
•  Recognising New Age Mumbo Jumbo Understanding and avoiding deceptive New Age ideas
•  Retrospective Coherence in a Complex World How oversimplified narratives distort the past and hinder decision-making
•  Spirituality A deep appreciation, respect, and love for the universe, the world, all life, and humanity
•  Summarize Conflicting Perspectives Use the chatbot to summarize two conflicting perspectives on a complex issue
•  Talk More The essence of Conversational Leadership is to talk with people more
•  The Four Levels of Knowledge Management The relation between Conversational Leadership and Knowledge Management
•  The Perils of Binary Bias ** Simplifying complex issues into two extreme and opposing categories
•  The Power of Discourse and Narrative ** How stories shape our individual and collective realities
•  The Power of Team Huddles How brief team gatherings can align, motivate, and connect
•  The Relationship Between Consciousness and Intelligence ** Both concepts are multifaceted and the relationship is not well understood
•  The Relationship Between Intelligence and Evolution ** Shaping life on earth
•  The Roots of the Scientific Method Exploring the history of the scientific method
•  There Are No Solutions to Complex Challenges Only an endless series of adaptive responses
•  Two Worlds Learning to live in an entangled world
•  Use of Self Using who we are to be more effective in life
•  Water Cooler Conversations ** Casual chat or gossip in the workplace
•  We Are Not Enemies but Friends—mostly Finding understanding by conversing with those who think differently
•  We Are Stardust We are literally part of the universe, not separate from it
•  We Humans Are Complex Human socio-technical systems are complex
•  What Are Mindsets? Ways of thinking, mental inclinations, dispositions, or frames of mind
•  What Is a System? ** An interconnected set of elements organized in a way that achieves something

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