John Hovell is a practitioner, speaker, and author in OD/KM strategies. John is a good friend; we are working closely to develop . LinkedinJohn HovellTwitter@klowey22YouTubeJohn HovellGoogleJohn Hovell Twitter Tweets by John Hovell Posts: John HovellC-group Develop your interpersonal and conversational skillsThree Questions for Meaningful Conversations Clarify focus, approach, and community-building in discussionsBooks: John HovellC-group Develop … Continue reading John Hovell Practitioner, speaker, and author in OD/KM strategies
It’s up to us to decide on the kind of conversations we have. The way we talk at the office or factory shapes the work we do; it’s not just machines which force us to be obedient. I want to show how we could make our work a lot less boring and frustrating if we learned to talk differently. | Theodore Zeldin Continue reading It’s Up to Us to Decide on the Kind of Conversations We Have Theodore Zeldin
Posts where this video is embedded Disagree Constructively How to disagree wellBooks: Julia DharHow to Disagree Productively and Find Common Ground Julia DharHow to Have Constructive Conversations Julia DharVideos: Julia DharHow to Disagree Productively and Find Common Ground Julia DharHow to Have Constructive Conversations Julia DharTags: constructive disagreement (17) | conversation (187) | curiosity (27) | … Continue reading How to Have Constructive Conversations Julia Dhar
In the book Conversation: A History of a Declining Art, Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking a historical and philosophical view of the subject. He chronicles the art of conversation in Western civilization from its beginnings in ancient Greece to its apex in eighteenth-century Britain to its current endangered state in … Continue reading Conversation: A History of a Declining Art Stephen Miller (2007)
In this book, Talking Cure by Paula Marantz Cohen reveals how conversation connects us in ways that social media never can and explains why simply talking to each other freely and without guile may be the cure to what ails our troubled society. Drawing on her lifelong immersion in literature and culture and her decades … Continue reading Talking Cure: an Essay on the Civilizing Power of Conversation by Paula Marantz Cohen (2023)
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Books: Peter Osborn, Eddy Canfor-DumasThe Talking Revolution: How Creative Conversation Can Change the World by Peter Osborn, Eddy Canfor-Dumas (2018) The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-era Organizations The Village … Continue reading The Talking Revolution: How Creative Conversation Can Change the World by Peter Osborn, Eddy Canfor-Dumas (2018)
New Discourses convened in October of 2019 in the National Liberal Club of London for a day-long conference titled Speaking Truth to Social Justice. There, Portland State University philosophy professor Peter Boghossian gave a talk about the need to “speak truth in the face of danger,” parrhesia, as the Ancient Greeks called it, as this … Continue reading The Way Forward Peter Boghossian (2019)
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. | Plato Continue reading People, Play and Conversation Plato
Posts where this video is embedded Disagree Constructively How to disagree wellPeople: Arthur BrooksArthur C. Brooks American social scientistBooks: Arthur BrooksArthur C. Brooks American social scientistLove Your Enemies — Disagree Better, Not Less Arthur BrooksLove Your Enemies — Say No to Contempt Arthur BrooksLove Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America From Our Culture of … Continue reading Love Your Enemies — Disagree Better, Not Less Arthur Brooks
The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free. | Michael Oakeshott Continue reading The Politics of Our Society Are a Conversation Michael Oakeshott
Good conversation mixes opinions, feelings, facts, and ideas in an improvisational exchange with one or more individuals in an atmosphere of goodwill. It inspires mutual insight, respect, and, most of all, joy. It is a way of relaxing the mind, opening the heart, and connecting, authentically with others. To converse well is surprising, … | Paula Marantz Cohen Continue reading Good Conversation Paula Marantz Cohen
How can we begin to resolve our problems, if even our conversations about them keep breaking down? video playerImpossible Conversations | Peter Boghossian The larger point is that what we need to do is we need to speak openly and honestly about things and if we don’t those problems – the earth doesn’t give a … Continue reading Impossible Conversations Peter Boghossian (2019)
An organsation’s results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations. | Fernando Flores Continue reading Webs of Human Conversations Fernando Flores
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. | Michel de Montaigne Continue reading The Most Fruitful and Natural Play of the Mind Is in Conversation Michel de Montaigne
As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves. | Michael Oakeshott Continue reading A Conversation Begun in the Primeval Forests Michael Oakeshott
Conversation: the heartbeat of our organisations. Right now, we’re at risk of losing the art of doing it well. We need to radically change how we talk to each other, to create workplaces where people feel they belong and can thrive. This book will help you understand how to grow your conversational wisdom to create … Continue reading Conversational Wisdom: Strengthening Human Connection Through the Power of Conversation Emily Cosgrove and Sara Hope (2023)
You will find the transcript of Patricia Shaw‘s talk below. Although she never uses the term, Patricia describes some of the key elements of Conversational Leadership. The highlighting is mine and draws attention to what I feel are the main points. Transcript I thought last night about how I am beginning myself to think about … Continue reading What Is the Work of Leadership? Patricia Shaw (2010)
In our current political climate, it seems impossible to have a civil conversation with someone who has a different opinion. Dialogue is shut down when perspectives clash. Heated debates on Facebook and Twitter often lead to shaming, hindering any possibility of productive discourse. In this book, How to Have Impossible Conversations, Peter Boghossian and James … Continue reading How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay (2019)
Introduction Recent research has shown that conversation is important for improving innovation. It has also been found that conversation improves group and individual performance and knowledge sharing. This article will address some of the principles of innovation and how conversational techniques can be harnessed to improve business outcomes. Innovation can mean many things, from the … Continue reading The Innovation Conversation Keith De La Rue (2012)
David Randall’s “Conversational Enlightenment” explores the 18th century’s “conversation boom” in literature, philosophy, art, and society. He shows how conversation expanded beyond elites, influencing politeness, public opinion, and even art. He argues it wasn’t just chatter but a tool for shaping ideas & the Enlightenment itself. He challenges traditional views, highlighting salons & women’s role … Continue reading The Conversational Enlightenment: the Reconception of Rhetoric in Eighteenth-century Thought David Randall (2020)
In a conversation the participants are not engaged in an inquiry or a debate; there is no ‘truth’ to be discovered, no proposition to be proved, no conclusion sought. They are not concerned to inform, to persuade, or to refute one another, and therefore the cogency of their utterances does not depend upon their all speaking in the same idiom; they may differ without disagreeing. Of course, a … | Michael Oakeshott Continue reading In a Conversation the Participants Are Not Engaged in an Inquiry Michael Oakeshott
We are in a constant, collective journey of storytelling, sense making, and creation. Knowledge is a conversation. It is not a static “thing,” but a continual process in motion, emerging in the shared communal learning space that arises between people. Every conversation reshapes our knowledge, modifying it to fit new circumstances, expanding it with new … Continue reading Sensing Our World Verna Allee
One of the ways of thinking about leadership is thinking about convening conversations that might not happen otherwise. | Patricia Shaw Continue reading Convening Conversations That Might Not Happen Otherwise Patricia Shaw
video player Harvard Commencement speech 2013 | Oprah Winfrey Transcript This is a transcript of where she talks about the importance of having face-to-face conversations with people with whom you may disagree. Her words are a timely reminder that we can’t outsource empathy to algorithms. Real connection demands real conversation—even and especially with those we … Continue reading Oprah Winfrey Harvard Commencement Speech Oprah Winfrey (2013)
In a conversation the participants are not engaged in an inquiry or a debate; there is no ‘truth’ to be discovered, no proposition to be proved, no conclusion sought. They are not concerned to inform, to persuade, or to refute one another, and therefore the cogency of their utterances does not depend upon their all speaking in the same idiom; they may differ without disagreeing. Of course, a … | Michael Oakeshott Continue reading The Conversation of Mankind Michael Oakeshott
Juanita Brown is the founder of Whole Systems Associates, an international consortium of professionals dedicated to strategic inquiry and the renewal of complex systems. With her partner, David Isaacs, she is also the co-originator of The World Café An introduction to the World Café | Juanita Brown. LinkedinJuanita BrownYouTubeJuanita BrownGoogleJuanita BrownPosts: Juanita BrownThe Differences Between … Continue reading Juanita Brown Co-originator of The World Café
And even though this is the college where Facebook was born, my hope is that you would try to go out and have more face-to-face conversations with people you may disagree with. That you’ll have the courage to look them in the eye and hear their point of view. And help make sure that the speed and distance and anonymity of our world doesn’t cause … | Oprah Winfrey Continue reading Have More Conversations with People Whom You Disagree Oprah Winfrey
We had talk enough, but no conversation; there was nothing discussed. | Samuel Johnson Continue reading We Had Talk Enough, but No Conversation Samuel Johnson
The kind of conversation I like is one where everyone is prepared to speak up and does not feel the need to censor anything they say. | David Gurteen Continue reading The Kind of Conversation I Like David Gurteen
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation? | Guy de Maupassant Continue reading Conversation. What Is It? A Mystery! Guy de Maupassant
So now, Athenian men, more than on my own behalf must I defend myself, as some may think, but on your behalf, so that you may not make a mistake concerning the gift of god by condemning me. For if you kill me, you will not easily find another such person at all, even if to say in a ludicrous way, attached on the city by the god, like on a large … | Socrates Continue reading Gadfly Socrates
Leadership is the art of designing transformative conversations. Real change is needed now, more than ever. This change can’t happen through force, edict, or persuasion. The future will be built through conversation – and Good Talk will show you how. Good Talk is a step-by-step framework to effect change in your personal and professional conversations. … Continue reading Good Talk: How to Design Conversations That Matter by Daniel Stillman (2020)
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. | Jean de La Bruyère Continue reading The Great Gift of Conversation Jean de La Bruyère
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Books: Elizabeth StokoeTalk: the Science of Conversation By Elizabeth Stokoe (2018) Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations Talking Cure: an Essay on the Civilizing Power of … Continue reading Talk: the Science of Conversation By Elizabeth Stokoe (2018)
This “us and them” problem is exacerbated by our reliance on impersonal communications technologies. One of a leader’s greatest challenges these days is getting people to actually talk to each other; one-on-one meetings and old-fashioned brainstorming are vital to the success of any growing business. Improving the flow of information is just one … | Richard Branson Continue reading A Leader’s Greatest Challenges Richard Branson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. | Martin Luther King Jr. Continue reading On Becoming Silent About Things Martin Luther King Jr.
In The Concept of Conversation, David Randall argues that conversation, often overlooked in history, profoundly shaped early modern Europe. He reveals how it transformed from elite philosophical discourse to encompass friendship, salons, the press, and even women’s voices. Challenging Habermas’s view, Randall sees conversation, not just rational public debate, as central to intellectual progress, with … Continue reading The Concept of Conversation: From Cicero’s Sermo to the Grand Siecle’s Conversation David Randall (2019)
The models and processes in this book emerged from Mike Burrows’ frustrating, all too common experience of being asked to help a group become more Agile or Lean, only to discover that many in the room had no idea why they were there. To them, he was there not to help but to impose. Trying … Continue reading Organizing Conversations: Preparing Groups to Take on Adaptive Challenges By Mike Burrows (2024)
Meg Wheatley is an American writer and management consultant who studies organizational behavior. Leadership as a noble role | Meg Wheatley WebsiteMargaret J. WheatleyWikipediaMeg WheatleyYouTubeMeg WheatleyGoogleMeg WheatleyBooks: Meg WheatleyAsk What’s Possible, Not What’s Wrong Meg WheatleyBe Brave Enough to Start a Conversation That Matters Meg WheatleyChange Starts From Small Conversations Meg WheatleyConversation Is the Way … Continue reading Meg Wheatley American writer and management consultant
Conversation is the single greatest learning tool in your organization — more important than computers or sophisticated research. As a society, we know the art of small talk; we can talk about how the Red Sox are doing or where we went on vacation. But when we face contentious issues — when there are feelings about rights, or when two worthwhile … | William O’Brien Continue reading Conversation Is the Single Greatest Learning Tool in Your Organization William O’Brien
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and to touch another person. When this is done I feel contact has been made. | Virginia Satir Continue reading Being Seen, Heard, Understood and Touched Virginia Satir
Become an intellectual explorer: Master the art of conversation | Emily Chamlee-Wright Books: Emily Chamlee-WrightBecome an Intellectual Explorer: Master the Art of Conversation Emily Chamlee-WrightVideos: Emily Chamlee-WrightBecome an Intellectual Explorer: Master the Art of Conversation Emily Chamlee-WrightTags: conversation (187) | Emily Chamlee-Wright (1) | humility (6)Google Web Search Photo Credits: Midjourney ()This page is part of … Continue reading Become an Intellectual Explorer: Master the Art of Conversation Emily Chamlee-Wright
Conversation is action. It rewires our thinking, shapes possibilities, and aligns efforts. By fostering dialogue, we create the conditions for meaningful change and avoid wasted effort on the wrong actions. Connection Before Content Dissent Should Be Embraced, Not Suppressed This page is part of a blook on Conversational Leadership. Parts of this book have restricted access. … Continue reading Conversation Is Action Change Insight
Our most effective knowledge management tool is conversation. The words we choose, the questions we ask, and the metaphors we use to explain ourselves are what determine our success in creating new knowledge as well as sharing that knowledge with each other. | Nancy Dixon Continue reading Our Most Effective Knowledge Management Tool Is Conversation Nancy Dixon
There ain’t them so blind as them that won’t listen. Credit: Delboy’s Old Mum Only Fools and Horses http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/onlyfools Tags: conversation (187)Google Web Search Photo Credits: Pixabay (Pixabay)This quotation is part of a blook on Conversational Leadership. It is one of many quotations that have influenced my thinking on the subject. Parts of this blook have … Continue reading There Ain’t Them So Blind as Them That Won’t Listen Delboy’s Old Mum
Don’t use the excuse that you don’t have time to talk. If you value conversation, you will make time for it. | David Gurteen Continue reading If You Value Conversation, You Will Make Time for It David Gurteen
People implicitly acknowledge that they don’t have all the answers (or else the conversation is really a lecture) and risk being wrong in front of someone else. And conversations overcome the class structure of business, suspending the organization chart at least for a little while. | David Weinberger Continue reading Conversations Overcome the Class Structure of Business David Weinberger
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. | Margaret Millar Continue reading Most Conversations Are Simply Monologues Margaret Millar
It is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual’s use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully … | Friedrich Hayek Continue reading Civilization and Communal Knowledge Friedrich Hayek
The Oracy Lab is an experimental space for exploring the power and possibilities of spoken communication for conveying meaning and co-creating a deeper understanding of the complexity and dynamics of the world. | David Gurteen Continue reading What Is an Oracy Lab? David Gurteen
Conversational leadership takes root when leaders see their organizations as dynamic webs of conversation and consider conversation as a core process for effecting positive systemic change. Taking a strategic approach to this core process can not only grow intellectual and social capital, but also provide a collaborative advantage in our … | Juanita Brown & David Isaacs Continue reading Organizations as Dynamic Webs of Conversation Juanita Brown and David Isaacs
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Books: Stephen BrookfieldThe Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking by Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill (2016) The De-voicing of Society: Why We Don’t Talk to Each Other … Continue reading The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking by Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill (2016)
In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours. | Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading Excited Conversation Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that’s when the process … | Meg Wheatley Continue reading Simple Conversations Give Birth to Actions Meg Wheatley
Let the conversation flow at its own pace, don’t try to rush it or control it. You need to let go and be part of the conversation. Credit: Max Weiss Tags: conversation (187) | flow (3)Google Web Search Photo Credits: Pixabay (Pixabay)This quotation is part of a blook on Conversational Leadership. It is one of many … Continue reading Let the Conversation Flow at Its Own Pace Max Weiss
The Separation of the Learned from the conversible World seems to have been the great Defect of the last Age, and must have had a very bad Influence both on Books and Company: For what Possibility is there of finding Topics of Conversation fit for the Entertainment of rational Creatures, without having Recourse sometimes to … Continue reading The Separation of the Learned From the Conversible World David Hume (1742)
After basic needs are met, conversations among friends are the best technology ever invented by humans because you don’t know what’s coming next. There’s unexpected reward. There’s emergence. There’s new context. There’s discovery. There’s curiosity. There’s love. There’s sharing. True human conversation has to be the most valuable thing that we have, assuming that we … Continue reading Conversations Among Friends Are the Best Technology Ever Invented Nate Hagens
David Bohm was an American scientist described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology, and the philosophy of mind. David Bohm was the originator of Bohm Dialogue – a freely flowing group conversation in which participants attempt to reach a common understanding, … Continue reading David Bohm Physicist & Author
Megan Reitz is a Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Ashridge where she speaks, researches, consults and supervises on the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness. WebsiteMegan ReitzLinkedinMegan ReitzBlogMegan ReitzRSS FeedMegan ReitzTwitter@meganreitz1YouTubeMegan ReitzGoogleMegan Reitz Twitter Tweets by Megan Reitz RSS FeedBooks: Megan ReitzBeing Silenced and Silencing Others: Developing the Capacity to Speak Truth to … Continue reading Megan Reitz Facilitator, teacher, speaker, executive coach, researcher and author
Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly. | Plutarch Continue reading Knowing How to Listen Plutarch
In this book, Conversation: How talk can change our lives, Theodore Zeldin explains what kind of talk charmed and excited people in the past, and why we talk differently today. It explores the art and the history of conversation and how it can be the key to a happier, more interesting future. It shows how … Continue reading Conversation: How Talk Can Change Our Lives by Theodore Zeldin (2000)
I believe we can change the world if we start listening to one another again. Simple, honest, human conversation. Not mediation, negotiation, problem-solving, debate, or public meetings. Simple, truthful conversation where we each have a chance to speak, we each feel heard, and we each listen well. | Meg Wheatley Continue reading I Believe We Can Change the World If We Start Listening to One Another Again Meg Wheatley
To really work conversationally, I think, is potentially to be really open to the complexity of what being human is like. | Johnnie Moore Continue reading To Really Work Conversationally Johnnie Moore, 2023
Democray is a conversation … Modern democracy as we know it, it’s built on top of specific information technology. Once the information technology changes, it’s an open question whether democracy can survive. And the biggest danger now is the opposite of what we faced in the Middle Ages.In the Middle Ages, it was impossible to … Continue reading Democracy Is a Conversation Yuval Noah Harari (2023)
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but, I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not really what I meant. | Robert J. McCloskey Continue reading Believing What You Think I Said Robert J. McCloskey
A new future is created when each gathering (or meeting) becomes an opportunity to deepen accountability and commitment through engagement. It doesn’t matter what the stated purpose of the gathering is. Each gathering serves two functions: (1) to address its stated purpose and (2) to be an occasion for each person to decide to become engaged as an … | Peter Block Continue reading A Gathering Serves Two Functions Peter Block
David Weinberger is a senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and was co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, and a journalism fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center. Ever since I became acquainted with his thinking in The Cluetrain Manifesto in 1999, David has had a huge influence on me. His … Continue reading David Weinberger Technologist, professional speaker, and commentator
Our day-to-day conversations define how we see ourselves and how we’re seen. The choices we make about what to say and who to say it to are decisive factors in whether we get promoted, or side-lined. Whether we steer clear of trouble or find ourselves in it up to our necks. With daily scandals hitting … Continue reading Speak Up: Say What Needs to Be Said and Hear What Needs to Be Heard by Megan Reitz and John Higgins (2019)
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. | Michel de Montaigne Continue reading Boring Conversation Michel de Montaigne
Conversation is the vehicle for change. We test our ideas. We hear our own voice in a concert with another. And inside those pauses of listening, we approach new territories of thought. A good argument, call it a discussion, frees us. Words fly out of our mouths like threatened birds. Once released, they may never return. If they do, they have … | Terry Tempest Williams Continue reading Conversation Is the Vehicle for Change Terry Tempest Williams
Nancy Dixon is a researcher and consultant who focuses on the people side of knowledge management. Nancy is a good friend and we are working closely together along with John Hovell to develop the concept of Conversational Leadership. Sharing Tacit Knowledge – the story about Xerox Copy Repair Technicians | Nancy Dixon WebsiteCommon Knowledge AssociatesLinkedinNancy DixonBlogConversation … Continue reading Nancy Dixon Researcher and consultant
Why is conversation so easy? Abstract Traditional accounts of language processing suggest that monologue – presenting and listening to speeches – should be more straightforward than dialogue – holding a conversation. This is clearly not the case. We argue that conversation is easy because of an interactive processing mechanism that leads to the alignment of … Continue reading Why Is Conversation So Easy? Simon Garrod and Martin J. Pickering
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca Continue reading Conversation Has a Kind of Charm About It Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We think that if we can control or predict how a conversation will go, it will improve its quality and get us what we want. The penchant for planning our encounters is a distrust of ourselves and each other as spontaneous beings. | Peter Block Continue reading Predicting or Controlling a Conversation Peter Block
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Books: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillanCrucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler (2011) Creating Conversational Leadership Curious: the Desire … Continue reading Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler (2011)
Theodore Zeldin is a British historian and philosopher known for his focus on the power of conversation and understanding between people. He has written numerous books, including “An Intimate History of Humanity,” and is the founder of the Oxford Muse, an organization dedicated to fostering dialogue and understanding. I know Theodore a little, having met … Continue reading Theodore Zeldin Historian & Author
Conversation is a form of interactive, spontaneous communication between two or more people. Typically it occurs in spoken communication, as written exchanges are usually not referred to as conversations. The development of conversational skills and etiquette is an important part of socialization. | Wikipedia Continue reading Conversation Is a Form of Interactive, Spontaneous Communication Wikipedia
Conversation is the most powerful learning technology ever invented. Conversations carry news, create meaning, foster cooperation, and spark innovation. Encouraging open, honest conversation through workspace design, setting ground rules for conversing productively, and baking conversation into the corporate culture spread intellectual capital, … | Jay Cross Continue reading Conversation Is the Most Powerful Learning Technology Ever Invented Jay Cross
Conversation is the way that humans have always thought together. In conversation we discover shared meaning. It is the primal human organizing tool. Even in the corridors of power, very little real action happens in debate, but rather in the side rooms, the hallways, the lunches, the times away from the ritual spaces of authority and in the … | Meg Wheatley Continue reading Conversation Is the Way That Humans Have Always Thought Together Meg Wheatley
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Rebel Ideas: the Power of Diverse Thinking Red Teaming: How Your Business Can Conquer the Competition by Challenging Everything Tags: conversation (187)Google Web Search Photo Credits: Midjourney (Public Domain)This page is part … Continue reading Reclaiming Conversation: the Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle (2015)
Whether you want to change the political or economic system, save the whales, stop global warming, reform education, spark innovation or anything else, the answer is in how meaning, and understanding of what needs to be done, emerges from conversation in community with people you love, people who care. | Dave Pollard Continue reading What Needs to Be Done, Emerges From Conversation Dave Pollard
In the new economy, conversations are the most important form of work. Conversations are the way knowledge workers discover what they know, share it with their colleagues, and in the process create new knowledge in the organization. Conversations inside and outside the company are the chief mechanism for making change and renewal an ongoing part … | Alan Webber Continue reading Conversations Are the Most Important Form of Work Alan Webber
What Is the Difference Between Rhetoric and Oracy? What Is a Real Conversation? Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Conversation is a form of interactive, spontaneous communication between two or more people. Typically it occurs in spoken … Continue reading Introduction: the Power of Conversation A powerful, adaptable human technology
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Book Purchased: 26 August, 2020 Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment Obliquity Tags: conversation (187) | language (18)Google Web Search Photo Credits: Midjourney (Public Domain)This page is part of a blook on Conversational … Continue reading Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about. | Cory Doctorow Continue reading Conversation Is King Cory Doctorow
The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person. | Theodore Zeldin Continue reading The Kind of Conversation I Like Theodore Zeldin
Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation – literally. And ‘knowledge workers’ are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations. | David Weinberger Continue reading Business Is a Conversation David Weinberger
Collective Sense-making The Power of Peer Instruction Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Conversational learning is a form of learning that takes place through meaningful conversations and interactions between individuals. It emphasizes the importance of dialogue, exchange … Continue reading Introduction: Conversational Learning Unleashing knowledge
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Book Purchased: 01 January, 2020 An Intimate History of Humanity Awareness: the Perils and Opportunities of Reality Tags: conversation (187) | real conversation (10)Google Web Search Photo Credits: Midjourney (Public Domain)This page … Continue reading Authentic Conversations: Moving From Manipulation to Truth and Commitment by James Showkeir
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive Listening to the Volcano: Conversations That Open Our Minds to New Possibilities Tags: conversation (187)Google Web Search Photo Credits: Midjourney (Public … Continue reading Life-changing Conversations: 7 Strategies for Talking About What Matters Most by Sarah Rozenthuler
In this book, Learning Together and Alone, the authors integrate cooperative learning with competitive and individualistic learning by providing guidelines for managing critical issues such as teaching social skills, assessing competencies and involvement, and resolving conflict among group members. Each type of learning is clearly defined; the advantages and disadvantages of each are covered, and … Continue reading Learning Together and Alone: Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic Learning by David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization Conversation: A History of a Declining Art Tags: conversation (187) | learning (38)Google Web Search Photo Credits: Midjourney (Public Domain)This page is part … Continue reading Content-area Conversations: How to Plan Discussion-based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Carol Rothenberg
Technology does not automatically improve conversation, communication or behaviour. | Theodore Zeldin Continue reading Technology Does Not Automatically Improve Conversation Theodore Zeldin
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Evolutionaries: Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science’s Greatest Idea From Debate to Dialogue: Using the Understanding Process to Transform Our Conversations Tags: conversation (187)Google Web Search Photo Credits: Midjourney (Public … Continue reading Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott (2002)
Abstract Background Those attempting to implement changes in health care settings often find that intervention efforts do not progress as expected. Unexpected outcomes are often attributed to variation and/or error in implementation processes. We argue that some unanticipated variation in intervention outcomes arises because unexpected conversations emerge during intervention attempts. The purpose of this paper … Continue reading The Role of Conversation in Health Care Interventions Enabling sensemaking and learning
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Posts where this book is embedded Conversation Covenant Creating a psychologically safer space for difficult conversations Difficult Conversations Navigating emotionally challenging conversations Dialogue: Rediscover the Transforming Power of Conversation Dominion: the Making of … Continue reading Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton , Sheila Heen (1999)
