Source: The ClueTrain ManifestoTo have a conversation, you have to be comfortable being human – acknowledging you don’t have all the answers, being eager to learn from someone else and to build new ideas together.
You can only have a conversation if you’re not afraid of being wrong.
Otherwise, you’re not conversing, you’re just declaiming, speechifying, or reading what’s on the PowerPoints.
To converse, you have to be willing to be wrong in front of another person.
Conversations occur between equals.
The time your boss’s boss asked you at a meeting about your project’s deadline was not a conversation.
The time you sat with your boss for an hour in the Polynesian-themed bar while on a business trip and you really talked, got past the corporate bullshit, told each other the truth about the dangers ahead, and ended up talking about your kids – that maybe was a conversation.
Credit: David Weinberger
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