Event: Conversational Leadership Café: the Knowledge Delusion Wednesday 16th February 2022 17:00 to 19:00 GMT (London time)

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Title: Conversational Leadership Café: The Knowledge Delusion

Date: Wednesday 16th February 2022

Time: 17:00 to 19:00 GMT, London time (your time zone)

The timing of this event is set to allow participants from EMEA and the Americas to join the Café, but wherever you are in the world, you are welcome to participate.

Host/Speaker: David Gurteen

Location: Online Zoom Event

Price: Free

Registration:  Please register on Eventbrite

Introduction

This event is one in a series of online Knowledge Cafés on Conversational Leadership run on the Zoom video conferencing platform.

Each Café is themed on material from my online blook on Conversational Leadership.

Before each Café, I may ask you to do a little homework and read one or more posts in my blook relating to the theme.

If you are not familiar with the Knowledge Café concept, this event is participatory. It is  NOT a webinar.

You do not need to have taken part in an earlier Knowledge Café to participate in this one. All my Knowledge Cafés are stand-alone.


David will speak to the following theme of this Café and pose a question to trigger the conversation. We will then divide into break-out rooms for three rounds of small group conversations followed by a whole group conversation.

Theme: The Knowledge Delusion

We have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don’t even know how a toilet works.

As individuals, we know almost nothing compared to what we think we know. Our personal knowledge is a delusion.

Most of our individual beliefs are not based on our personal experience or even our analysis of the evidence. They are based on our trust or distrust of other people and institutions. Despite this, we argue and fight over our beliefs.

Reading Material

Please read this short post in my blook on the subject if you have the time. It is not a pre-requisite.

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This page is part of a blook on Conversational Leadership. Parts of this book have restricted access. You can learn more about the book and how to obtain full access on the home page.

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