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Recent Blook Posts
The last twenty posts that have been published are listed below:
- Meeting the Enemy How Deeyah Khan uses conversation to understand people drawn to extremism
- Interthinking: Thinking Together Why our best thinking often happens in conversation
- Information Is Not a Thing Information emerges through perception and interpretation
- Information in Physics How physics gives information a very different meaning
- The Power of Random Conversations Creating the conditions for knowledge to spread through conversation
- Human Conversations and AI Conversations ** Some differences will fade, others may remain
- Talking Too Much Good conversations are everyone's responsibility
- The Risks and Challenges of Bringing AI Into Conversation How AI can affect trust, judgement, power, and human dialogue
- Human Rights and Obligations Why values matter only when lived through action and relationships
- Rethinking Conversation in the Age of AI What changes when an AI joins the dialogue, and what might we gain?
- AI in the Room Making AI part of a shared Zoom conversation
- In Complex Situations Cause and Effect Can Only Be Understood in Retrospect Why prediction breaks down in complex situations
- Philosophy as a Relational Practice Philosophy, responsibility, and meaning in everyday life
- Connection Is the Work Why relationships shape whether work happens at all
- The Gurteen KM Thinking Framework Knowledge Management
- Classical vs Relational KM From transactions and content to interaction and meaning
- The Trouble with Knowledge Flow Why a familiar metaphor can mislead us
- From Conversation to Conversing Why the verb matters more than the noun
- When AI Joins the Conversation Exploring how artificial intelligence could take part in real time human discussions
- Storytelling and Conversational Leadership Placing storytelling in the practice of thinking together
Recent Pages
The last five pages that have been published are listed below:
- Orientation to Conversational Leadership An orientation to the ideas, principles, and practice
- Why Conversational Leadership Matters Why conversation, shared responsibility, and thinking together matter in a complex world
- Quote of the Day Subscribe to receive a random quotation each day
- Member Login
- My Courses
Recent Updates
The last ten posts/pages that have been updated are listed below:
- Constraints in Complex Systems Complexity
- Orientation to Conversational Leadership An orientation to the ideas, principles, and practice
- Al Jazeera Cafe An interesting experiment not to deabate but engage in a global conversation
- Huawei Transforms a Global Conference with a Knowledge Market How to make a conference more participatory
- Full Book Collection Books worth exploring for anyone interested in Conversational Leadership and related topics
- Preface How the Knowledge Café started
- Frequently Asked Questions About Conversational Leadership Conversational Leadership: Key points and myths
- Why Conversational Leadership Matters Why conversation, shared responsibility, and thinking together matter in a complex world
- AI Generated Images Images generated by AI on this website
- What Is Communityship? Where everyone in a community practices leadership
Recent People
The last five people that have been added are listed below:
- David Whyte Poet and thinker exploring the human side of work and conversation
- Mikhail Bakhtin Russian philosopher of language, dialogue, and the social nature of meaning
- Martin Buber Jewish philosopher of dialogue and human relationships
- Rupert Wegerif Professor of Education at Cambridge University
- Carl Sagan American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator.
Recent Books
The last five books that have been added are listed below:
- Let’s Talk: How to Have Better Conversations By Nihal Arthanayake
- Words and Minds: How We Use Language to Think Together by Neil Mercer (2000)
- Interthinking: Putting Talk to Work by Karen Littleton, Neil Mercer (2013)
- Oracy: the Transformative Power of Finding Your Voice by Neil Mercer
- On Relationality: Lessons From Martin Buber on Living in Relation with Self, Others, the World, and Life Itself by Alexander Carabi (2023)
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:
- What Is Conversational Leadership? – Conversations with KMI Series David Gurteen and John Hovell
- Dialogic OD Edgar Schein
- In Conversation: Episode 18: What Is the Relationship Between Storytelling & Conversational Leadership? Thursday 6 November 2025
- What Is Complexity Informed Strategy? Jen Briselli
- Great Leadership Is a Network, Not a Hierarchy Gitte Frederiksen (2020)
Recent Quotations
The last five quotations that have been added are listed below:
- When Conversation Becomes Too Small Unknown
- The Secret of Success Henry Ford
- An Iron Prescription Against Ideology Charlie Munger
- One for All, All for One Alexandre Dumas (1844)
- We Know More Than We Can Tell Michael Polanyi (1966)
Recent Blog Posts
The last five blog posts that have been added are listed below:
- Reading Worth Your Time Curated links, August 2026
- Quote of the Month August 2026
- The Surprising Power of Conversations to Change People’s Minds Including our own
- The Speech Eisenhower Never Had to Give Taking responsibility
- Reading Worth Your Time Curated links, July 2026
Recent Comments
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