And so we need to start talking and listening. And when you talk it doesn’t mean you’re right. It doesn’t mean you’re correct. Right? It means you’re trying to articulate and formulate your thoughts like the boneheaded moron that you are. And you are going to stumble around idiotically because what the hell do you know. You are full of biases, and … | Jordan Peterson Continue reading We Need to Start Talking and Listening Jordan Peterson
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Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don’t just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, and engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards. | Theodore Zeldin Continue reading When Minds Meet Theodore Zeldin
Our spoken language allows us to do more than just share information — it enables us to think and reason together. | David Gurteen Continue reading Our Spoken Language Enables Us to Think Together David Gurteen
Free group discussion is to thinking (ideas and abstractions) as handling things is to perception. | Melanie Abercrombie Continue reading Abercrombie’s Thesis Melanie Abercrombie
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
Organizations and individuals face increasing complexity and uncertainty. Relying on isolated knowledge limits understanding and leads to biased decisions. Sharing ideas and insights through conversation helps people make sense of information, solve problems, and adapt to change together. Continue reading Introduction: Knowledge Management Knowledge Management is not an oxymoron
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Storytelling is widely treated as a core leadership skill in organizations. When stories are used mainly to inspire or persuade, conversation can shift from inquiry to performance. Conversational Leadership keeps stories in play, but centres attention on shared reasoning and what unfolds after the story is told. Continue reading Storytelling and Conversational Leadership Placing storytelling in the practice of thinking together
What is the most powerful technology ever invented? Electricity, the Internet, nuclear power, the printing press or something different? Continue reading Our Most Powerful Technology Is Conversation Conversation – an overlooked technology
A powerful metaphor for exploring group thinking is the idea of connecting minds. Continue reading Connecting Minds Connecting and synchronising minds
A Future Café is a form of Knowledge Café designed to explore trends and issues that shape, influence or in some way impact the future. Continue reading Future Café Explore trends and issues that shape, influence and impact the future
An Idea Campaign Café is a conversational method that you can use to solicit ideas on a particular issue, problem, or opportunity. It draws upon the conversational power of the Ideation Café (a variant of the Knowledge Café) and the Randomised Coffee Trial processes. Continue reading Idea Campaign Café A series of focused conversations to generate ideas