Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking TogetherDialogue 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. |
Contents
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| 17 | |
Why We Think Alone and What We Can Do About It | 49 |
The Timeless Way of Conversation | 70 |
BUILDING CAPACITY FOR NEW BEHAVIOR | 79 |
Respecting | 110 |
Suspending | 134 |
Voicing | 159 |
Setting the Container | 239 |
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 |
ARCHITECTURE OF THE INVISIBLE | 233 |
Notes | 404 |
Diagrams | 418 |
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