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Recent Blook Posts
The last twenty posts that have been published are listed below:
- Rules of the Garage: Reigniting Innovation at HP Innovation Story: How Carly Fiorina’s Manifesto Modernized the HP Way
- Introduction: Conversation in the Age of AI Artificial intelligence
- Critical Thinking How to challenge your own assumptions
- Writing with AI Isn’t Necessarily Cheating Why it’s a legitimate tool for professionals and creators
- Retrospective Coherence in a Complex World How oversimplified narratives distort the past and hinder decision-making
- Congruence, Coherence, and Contingent Truth Building a framework for understanding
- The House of Wisdom Innovation Story: An Islamic beacon of innovation and collaboration
- Three Questions for Meaningful Conversations Clarify focus, approach, and community-building in discussions
- Constraints in Complex Systems Complexity
- Nurturing an Innovation Culture Allowing emergence, not imposing change
- The Google 20% Free Time Policy Innovation Story: A catalyst for innovation
- Silicon Valley Versus Route 128 Innovation Story: How Silicon Valley's open culture outpaced Route 128's closed network
- Building 20 at MIT Innovation Story: A humble wartime lab that sparked a legacy of innovation and collaboration
- The Many Faces of Strategy ** How strategy varies from simple plans to shaping entire environments
- Strategy in a Complex World ** Strategy is much more than a plan
- The Role of Human Agency Within Actor-network Theory Actor-network theory
- Actor-network Theory (ANT) Actor-Network Theory
- We Are Not Enemies but Friends—mostly Finding understanding by conversing with those who think differently
- The Power of Talking with Enemies Özlem Cekic’s story of transforming hostility through conversation
- Changing Minds Through Conversation The role of conversation in Derek Black’s transformation
Recent Pages
The last five pages that have been published are listed below:
- Podcasts List of podcasts
- Gurteen Knowledge Café Registration Form Gurteen Knowledge
- Gurteen Knowledge Letter Registration Form Gurteen Knowledge
- Videos: Innovation David Gurteen
- AI Resources AI resources and tools
Recent Updates
The last ten posts/pages that have been updated are listed below:
- How to Design Powerful Questions Questions open the door to dialogue and discovery
- The DIKW (data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom) Pyramid The DIKW model
- The Difference Between Responsibility and Accountability We take responsibility but are held accountable
- Silicon Valley Versus Route 128 Innovation Story: How Silicon Valley's open culture outpaced Route 128's closed network
- The Pixar Way Innovation Story: Lessons from Pixar on blending ideas, technology, and storytelling
- Conversations Through the Cynefin Lens Unraveling the intricacies of everyday conversations
- The Birth of Uber Innovation Story: How everyday frustrations and collaboration shaped Uber’s global transformation
- Actor-network Theory (ANT) Actor-Network Theory
- Conversational Leadership by David Gurteen
- Make Time to Talk The lack of time for conversation is just an excuse
Recent People
The last five people that have been added are listed below:
- Carl Sagan American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator.
- Simon Sinek Author and inspirational speaker
- Arthur C. Brooks American social scientist
- Yuval Noah Harari Historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Peter Boghossian American philosopher
Recent Books
The last five books that have been added are listed below:
- The Coming Wave Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar (2024)
- The Four Horsemen: the Discussion That Sparked an Atheist Revolution Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris , Daniel C. Dennett, Christopher Hitchens (2019)
- God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Christopher Hitchens (2007)
- Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI Yuval Noah Harari (2024)
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Sam Harris (2006)
Recent Papers
The last five papers that have been added are listed below:
- Ten Years in Knowledge Management David Gurteen
- Teaching Innovation, Conversations, Community of Practice: Using Knowledge Cafe’s to Share Teaching Best Practice … D.J. Cranfield, D. Gurteen (2020)
- Knowledge Café’s, Informal Conversations, Sharing Teaching Best Practice Desireé Cranfield, David Gurteen (2020)
- Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Cafés – a Case Study in Higher Education Desireé J Cranfield, Isabella M Venter, Sue Evans, Ellen Spender
- Knowledge Café: New Approach in Teaching and Learning at Higher Learning Institutions Noryana Ahmad Khusaini, Mohd Shamsul Daud, Seri Intan Idayu Shahrul Asari, Nordibradini Selamat
Recent Videos
The last five videos that have been added are listed below:
- Knowledge Café – KM UK 2013 David Gurteen, London (2013)
- Chatbots as Critical Thinking Partners Podcast generated by NotebookLM
- Why Knowledge Cafes Work David Gurteen (2013)
- Great Leadership Is a Network, Not a Hierarchy Gitte Frederiksen (2022)
- In the Age of AI #1: What Is Knowledge in the Age of AI? Friday 20th December 2024
Recent Quotations
The last five quotations that have been added are listed below:
- Democracy: Flawed Yet Indispensable David Gurteen (2024)
- Nothing Betrays Character Like Laughter Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- If You Want to Know a Man, Watch Him Laugh Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Writing, Thinking, Conversing—a Cycle of Insight David Gurteen
- History Isn’t the Study of the Past Yuval Noah Harari
Recent Blog Posts
The last five blog posts that have been added are listed below:
- Chatbots and Critical Thinking Insights from a successful knowledge café session
- Knowledge Summit 2025 in Dublin Trinity College Dublin 23 - 24 June
- The Comfort of Being Heard The simple joy of sharing without judgment
- Discovering Deepseek A free AI language model with impressive capabilities
- Why History Matters Understanding how change shapes our world
Recent Comments
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