Conversation

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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.

Credit: Christopher Locke

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, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

Credit: Theodore Zeldin

Article

  How to Make a Decision Like a Tribe by Peter Carlin 
An article from FastCompany about native American Indian decision making

  Learning to Listen and to Tell the Truth by David Gurteen
A short article on conversation

  The end of rational planning and the turn to conversational communities by John Shotter 
Article about Theodore Zeldin's views on conversation

  Virtual Value - Conversation, ideas and the creative economy by Alex McKie 
Interesting article on creative conversation

Book

  Conversation (1998 ) by Theodore Zeldin
How Talk Can Change Your Life

  Difficult Conversations (1999 ) by Douglas Stone , Bruce Patton , Sheila Heen 
How to Discuss what Matters Most

  Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott 
Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time

  Listening (1995 ) by Madelyn Burley-Allen 
The Forgotten Skill

  Listening to the Volcano (Mar 2005 ) by David Hutchens 
Conversations That Open Our Minds to New Possibilities

  The Art of Listening by Erich Fromm

  The De-Voicing of Society by John L. Locke 
Why We Don't Talk to Each Other Anymore

  Turning to One Another (Jan 2002 ) by Margaret J. Wheatley
Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future

Category

  Conversation [103 items]
Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally.

Download

  Does Conversation Work?
An article on conversation by Ray Shaw

GKR Article

  Hosting grassroot conversations between knowledge activists by Ton Zijlstra 
The Global Knowledge Review - January 2005

Link

  Creative State
Interesting Australian website on the role of conversation in business

  Cybernetic Conversation

  Group Jazz

  Pegasus Conference
Annual conference held by Pegasus Communications in the US in November

  The Wisdom Meme

  The World Café

Past Event

   Conversations that Create
07 - 09 May 2008, The Creative Leadership Forum 
LIW Centre for Leadership, Mosman Sydney, Australia

Person

  Adrian Hosford

  Alan Stewart

  David Isaacs

  Juanita Brown

  Margaret J. Wheatley Speaker, Writer, Consultant & President of The Berkana Institute

  Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author

Quotation

  Abercrombie's thesis by Melanie Abercrombie 

  On avoiding criticism by Elbert Hubbard  (1856-1915) American Publisher

  On business as a conversation by David Weinberger

  On conversation by Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) French writer & philosopher

  On conversation by Tom Peters Consultant & Author

  On conversation and being human by David Weinberger

  On conversation and minds by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author

  On conversation in community by Dave Pollard 

  On courage and listening by Winston Churchill  (1874 - 1965) British Prime Minister

  On deciding what kind of conversations we have by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author

  On excited conversation by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) American Essayist & Poet

  On hearing and talking by Zeno of Citium 

  On individuals by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author

  On knowing how to listen by Plutarch  (46 - 120) Greek Essayist

  On language as armory by Samuel Taylor Coleridge  (1772-1834) British Poet & Philosopher

  On not having to weigh thoughts or measure words by Dinah Craik  A Life for a Life, 1859

  On our business voice by David Weinberger

  On our voice by David Weinberger

  On poetry by James Buchan 

  On shift by Linda Lambert 

  On the english language by Garrison Keillor 

  On the heart of knowledge management by Marc Auckland 

  On the Internet and your own voice by David Weinberger

  On thinking and conversation by Plato  (428 BC - 348 BC), Greek philosopher

  On trust and communication by Karl-Erik Sveiby Consultant & Professor in Knowledge Management

Weblog Entry

  My talk at the Coffeemachine seemed to go down well this evening
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 18 June 2002

  SAD CAFÉ
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 3 July 2002

  Start and spread combustible conversations
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 14 July 2002

  Open Conversation
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 20 October 2002

  Conversation as a core business process
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 24 October 2002

  The Law of Two Feet
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 22 February 2003

  Conversation Cafes
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 6 April 2003

  The Conference Bike
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 16 September 2004

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