Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together

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Crown, 30.12.2008 - 448 Seiten
Dialogue provides practical guidelines for one of the essential elements of true partnership--learning how to talk together in honest and effective ways. Reveals how problems between managers and employees, and between companies or divisions within a larger corporation, stem from an inability to conduct a successful dialogue.

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The Fire of Conversation
3
A Conversation with a Center Not Sides
17
Why We Think Alone and What We Can Do About It
49
The Timeless Way of Conversation
70
BUILDING CAPACITY FOR NEW BEHAVIOR
81
Respecting
110
Suspending
134
Voicing
159
ARCHITECTURE OF THE INVISIBLE
235
Fields of Conversation
252
Convening Dialogue
291
The Ecology of Thought
300
Dialogue and the New Economy
321
Cultivating Organizational and System Dialogue
336
Dialogue and Democracy
360
Taking Wholeness Seriously
385

PREDICTIVE INTUITION
179
Patterns of Action
185
Overcoming Structural Traps
203
Notes
404
Diagrams
418
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Autoren-Profil (2008)

William Isaacs is the founder of Dialogos, a consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also a cofounder of the Organizational Learning Center at MIT and a senior lecturer at the Sloan School of Management. He is the author of Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together.

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