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 … Continue reading We Need to Start Talking and Listening Jordan Peterson
Matthew Syed is a journalist, author, and broadcaster. Pursuing Cognitive Diversity | Matthew Syed WebsiteMatthew SyedWikipediaMatthew SyedTwitter@matthewsyedYouTubeMatthew SyedGoogleMatthew Syed Twitter Tweets by Matthew Syed Books: Matthew SyedRebel Ideas: the Power of Diverse Thinking Matthew Syed (2019)Quotations: Matthew SyedTrust Is an Essential Ingredient of Belief Formation Matthew Syed Tags: beliefs (61) | cognitive diversity (8) | … Continue reading Matthew Syed Journalist, author and broadcaster
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. Credit: Theodore Zeldin Posts where this quotation is embedded Connecting … 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. Credit: David Gurteen Posts where this quotation is embedded Connecting Minds Connecting and synchronising minds Contra-conversations ** Future Café Explore trends and issues that shape, influence and impact the future Idea Campaign Café A series of focused conversations … Continue reading Our Spoken Language Enables Us to Think Together David Gurteen
Gurteen Knowledge Blog June 30, 2023, 09:31Many people criticize ChatGPT for its potential to harm students’ critical thinking abilities. However, I have a different opinion and believe that it can be a powerful tool to enhance thinking. I plan to write more about this in the future, but for now, in this post ChatGPT: Your critical … Continue reading Chatgpt as a Valuable Thinking Partner ChatGPT and critical thinking
Free group discussion is to thinking (ideas and abstractions) as handling things is to perception. Credit: Melanie Abercrombie Source: Anatomy of JudgementPosts where this quotation is embedded Connecting Minds Connecting and synchronising minds Contra-conversations ** Future Café Explore trends and issues that shape, influence and impact the future Idea Campaign Café A series of focused conversations to generate ideas The … 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 … Continue reading Conversation Is the Way That Humans Have Always Thought Together Meg Wheatley
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It is through conversation that anything of importance gets done, and it is through conversation that we transform the world. Since the dawn of time, conversation has been the principal tool for human communication and collaboration. Its power should not be surprising; this has always been the case, but we take conversation for granted and … Continue reading Introduction: Conversational Leadership A way of working
Knowledge Management is practiced through activities that support better decision-making, strategy-making, creativity, and innovation. It’s about making better sense of the world, improved decision-making, strategy formulation, implementation, creativity, and innovation. This is something only human beings do. Computers can do none of these things. You can make sense of things independently by reading, observing, and … Continue reading Introduction: Knowledge Management Knowledge Management is not an oxymoron
We all have our beliefs. Some held firmly; some held not so tightly. Some true, some false Some we are prepared to change. For others, we are prepared to die. One of my firmly held beliefs is that if we are going to create a better world, then each and every one of us needs … Continue reading Contra-conversations **
What is the most powerful technology ever invented? Electricity, the Internet, nuclear power, the printing press or something different? In our business world, we are always looking for the next new transformative tool. Too often, we look to information and communications technology (ICT) or social media but what if that elusive breakthrough was staring us … Continue reading Our Most Powerful Technology Is Conversation Conversation – an overlooked human technology
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. The Purpose There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. Credit: Steve Balmer A Future Café is not about making decisions or reaching … Continue reading Future Café Explore trends and issues that shape, influence and impact the future
A powerful metaphor for exploring group thinking is the idea of connecting minds. Connecting minds is a common metaphor when we talk about an increasingly connected world. In a connected world, we think of how the World Wide Web and apps like Facebook help to connect people. And we think about the Internet of Things … Continue reading Connecting Minds Connecting and synchronising minds
There are two conversations. The face-to-face external conversations we have with other people. And the silent internal conversations or inner conversations we have with ourselves, in our heads. Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound. … Continue reading Thinking Together Talking with each other beats talking to ourselves
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. Background Many organizations use suggestion boxes to capture ideas but usually with no clear … Continue reading Idea Campaign Café A series of focused conversations to generate ideas