Resources for Powerful Conversations

Dear friends, A large and growing body of knowledge exists about how to carry on powerful conversations — methodologies, facilitation know-how, dynamic understandings, and more.  This knowledge informs professions ranging from therapy to diplomacy and conflict resolution, from organizational development to creativity and innovation, from community revitalization to activism and deliberative democracy, from family relationships …

Review: Business War Games–How Large, Small, and New Companies Can Vastly Improve Their Strategies and Outmaneuver the Competition

Ben Gilad Core Reference Introducing Hindsight Games January 11, 2011 Not a single one of the other reviews mentions “hindsight games” which come at the end in Chapter 12, where Ben Gilad, whom I know and admire, properly lists Helen Ho and Matthew J. Morgan as the authors. At the age of 58 with 30+ …

Worth a Look: Communications, Communities, & Modalities

Seven years ago Tom Atlee, our mentor on collective intelligence and community self-organization for resilience and sustainability, began focusing on “ways of communicating.”  Responding to a recent query from us about alternatives to partisan politics or dictatorships, he offered up the below links, each of which has many other links, as food for reflection. 1. …

Review (Guest): SALVAGING AMERICAN DEFENSE–The Challenge of Strategic Overstretch

Anthony H. Cordesman; with Paul S. Frederiksen and William D. Sullivan (Author) 5.0 out of 5 stars Real Defense Exertise, December 22, 2010 By Retired Reader (New Mexico) – See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) Anthony Cordesman is by any rational measure an expert in defense, security, and intelligence issues. Virtually his entire career …