Isaacs, William.

Dialogue and the art of thinking together : a pioneering approach to communicating in business and in life / William Isaacs. - xx, 428 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [404]-417) and index.

Introduction: The Fire of Conversation -- pt. I. What is Dialogue? 1. A Conversation with a Center, Not Sides. 2. Why We Think Alone and What We Can Do About It. 3. The Timeless Way of Conversation -- pt. II. Building Capacity for New Behavior. 4. Listening. 5. Respecting. 6. Suspending. 7. Voicing -- pt. III. Predictive Intuition. 8. Patterns of Action. 9. Overcoming Structural Traps -- pt. IV. Architecture of the Invisible. 10. Setting the Container. 11. Fields of Conversation. 12. Convening Dialogue. 13. The Ecology of Thought -- pt. V. Widening the Circle. 14. Dialogue and the New Economy. 15. Cultivating Organizational and System Dialogue. 16. Dialogue and Democracy. 17. Taking Wholeness Seriously.

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Communication in management.
Communication.
Communicatie.

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