People: David Gurteen (1)Leadership is usually framed as a role or a position. It shows up more reliably in moments of interaction. In how questions are asked, how listening happens, and how difference is handled. Leadership lives between people, not above them.
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Books: David Gurteen (1)
Quotations: David Gurteen (46)
- A Conversation Architect Designs Strategic Conversations David Gurteen
- Being Truthful Versus Telling the Truth David Gurteen
- Chatbot Constraints David Gurteen
- Chatbots Lack Nuanced Communication Skills David Gurteen
- Chatbots Should Supplement Not Replace Human Critical Thinking David Gurteen
- Community and Culture Are Not the Same David Gurteen
- Conversation Is Not a Soft Skill David Gurteen
- Cultivating a Healthy Organizational Culture That Naturally Evolves David Gurteen
- Democracy: Flawed Yet Indispensable David Gurteen (2024)
- Distinguishing Between Misinformation and Disinformation Is Crucial David Gurteen
- Ignorance Is Simply a Lack of Understanding David Gurteen
- Information Does Not Constitute Knowledge David Gurteen
- Knowledge Alone Is Not Power David Gurteen
- Knowledge Is Not Power David Gurteen
- Knowledge Management Is Not Enough David Gurteen
- Knowledge Only Exists in the Mind David Gurteen
- Leadership and Social Influence David Gurteen
- Leveraging Chatbots to Aid Critical Thinking Skills David Gurteen
- Listening Is an Act of Creation David Gurteen
- Making Better Sense of the World David Gurteen
- Nurturing a Community David Gurteen
- Our Spoken Language Enables Us to Think Together David Gurteen
- Questions Can Limit or Open Up Thinking David Gurteen
- Shared Meaning Is Achieved Through Real Conversation David Gurteen
- Small Talk, Big Talk David Gurteen
- Teaching Critical Thinking Alone Is Not a Solution to Helping People Question Their Beliefs David Gurteen
- The Global Information Ecosystem David Gurteen
- The Kind of Conversation I Like David Gurteen
- The Potential of Strategic Conversation David Gurteen
- The Role of Trust in Sensemaking David Gurteen
- The Secret to Successful Knowledge Management David Gurteen
- There Are No Problems in Complex Systems David Gurteen
- There Are No Solutions Only Responses in Complex Adaptive Systems David Gurteen
- There Are No Sources of Information We Can Totally Trust David Gurteen
- Touching Distance for a Good Conversation David Gurteen
- What Is a Community? David Gurteen (2022)
- What Is a Conversation Covenant? David Gurteen and David Creelman
- What Is a Knowledge Worker? David Gurteen David Gurteen (2006)
- What Is a Positive Relationship? David Gurteen
- What Is a Powerful Question? David Gurteen
- What Is Communityship? David Gurteen
- What Is Conversational Leadership? David Gurteen
- What Is Oracy? David Gurteen
- What Is Rhetoric? David Gurteen
- Why Is So Little Importance Attached to Oracy? David Gurteen
- Writing, Thinking, Conversing—a Cycle of Insight David Gurteen
Videos: David Gurteen (29)
- APM Conference: Conversational Leadership David Gurteen (2016)
- Chatbots as Critical Thinking Partners – Talk for Bibliotheca Alexandrina David Gurteen (2024)
- Conversational Leadership David Gurteen, 2019
- Delivering Innovation Through Conversation David Gurteen (2022)
- Don’t Do Knowledge Management David Gurteen, 2011
- EC Knowledge Week Interview on Conversational Leadership David Gurteen, 2018
- Gurteen Knowledge Cafe KM Egypt, Cairo David Gurteen, 2010
- Gurteen Knowledge Cafe Smartlab at the University of East London David Gurteen, 2006
- How Best to Secure Continuous Innovation? David Gurteen (2010)
- How Do You Make People Share? David Gurteen (2005)
- How Measures Distort Behaviour David Gurteen (2005)
- In the Age of AI #1: What Is Knowledge? Friday 20th December 2024
- In the Age of AI #2: What Is Conversation? Thursday 20th February 2025
- In the Age of AI #3: What Is Reason? Thursday 13th March 2025
- In the Age of AI #4: What Is Education? Thursday 10th April 2025
- In the Age of AI #5: What Is Productivity? Thursday 29th May 2025
- Interview with David Gurteen by Jonathan Norman Jonathan Norman, David Gurteen, 2018
- Keynote Talk, Dubai Forum for Government Best Practice David Gurteen, 2014
- Knowledge Café for Worcestershire Innovation David Gurteen (2017)
- Sharing Tacit Knowledge with the Knowledge Café David Gurteen, 2022
- Singapore Knowledge Café David Gurteen, 2012
- Smarter Online Conversations David Gurteen, 2014
- Talk on Conversational Leadership at EC Knowledge Week David Gurteen, 2018
- Together • Ensemble Dream Big for Europe David Gurteen, Obhi Chatterjee & Julie Guégan
- What Are the the Best Circumstances for Thriving Innovation? David Gurteen (2010)
- What I Learnt as International Czar David Gurteen (2005)
- When Innovation Should Take Place? David Gurteen (2010)
- Who Should Drive Innovation? David Gurteen (2010)
- Why Knowledge Cafes Work David Gurteen (2013)
Papers: David Gurteen (1)
Blog Posts: David Gurteen (2)
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