We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur. Credit: Peter Block Comment: One of the most powerful insights from Peter Block. One that should always be kept in mind when designing any meeting or gathering.Posts where this quotation is embedded A Brief History of Knowledge 200,000 … Continue reading Connection Before Content – Without Relatedness, No Work Can Occur Peter Block
Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise, the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create. Credit: Peter Block Posts where this quotation is embedded A Brief History of … Continue reading Relationship and Connectedness Are the Pre-condition for Change Peter Block
The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give … Continue reading Newspapers Without a Government Thomas Jefferson
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about. Credit: Cory Doctorow Comment: A document or report is just content. It is not knowledge. Knowledge only exists in the human mind. We make sense of the world through conversation.Posts where this quotation is embedded A Brief History of Knowledge 200,000 years of human history A Conversation … Continue reading Conversation Is King Cory Doctorow
Community of Practice ** Conversare Events Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter Relationships shape how we work together. Too often, tasks take priority over connection, making collaboration difficult. Building relationships first—connection before content—creates trust, engagement, and openness, ensuring meaningful work can happen. Too often in organizational life, we ask things of people or try … Continue reading Connection Before Content Without relatedness, no work can occur
