William Isaacs is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His work builds on the roots of Lewin, Argyris, Senge, Bohm, et al. "…neither the enormous challenges human beings face today, nor the wonderful promise of the future on whose threshold we seem to be poised, can be reached unless human beings learn to think together in a very new way." http://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00172-Thinking-Together-Part-1.html

2. Conversation
Deliberation
Suspend
Defend
Reflective
Dialogue
Skillful
Discussion
Controlled
Discussion
Generative
Dialogue
Dialectic
Debate
Talk – explore
causes and
assumptions
Listen – without
resistance
Focused
thought and talk
Power talk
Talk – new insights
flow
Analysis and talk
Talk – protect
a position
(+)
(-)
Talk – tensions and
synthesis
Talk – different
opinions
- William Isaacs

3. http://www.pianoscapes.com/
http://www.conversational-leadership.org/
mitch.html
https://twitter.com/barbaracoffman
http://www.dialogue-associates.com/
http://onecosmic.groupsite.com/discussion/
topics/249685/messages
http://www.kantorinstitute.com/
http://www.strategy-business.com/Art-Kleiner
http://www.ottoscharmer.com/bio
http://dianamclainsmith.com/
http://www.david-bohm.net/dialogue/
http://infed.org/mobi/chris-argyris-theories-of-action
http://infed.org/mobi/donald-schon-learning
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QtQqZ6Q5-o

5. - Peter Senge

10. Or dialogue
CAPACITY FOR
NEW BEHAVIOR
2
FLUID STRUCTURES
OF INTERACTION
3
WHOLESOME SPACE
FOR DIALOGUE
4
1 5

11. Or dialogue
CAPACITY FOR
NEW BEHAVIOR
2
FLUID STRUCTURES
OF INTERACTION
3
WHOLESOME SPACE
FOR DIALOGUE
4
1 5

15. Conversation
Deliberation
Suspend
Defend
Reflective
Dialogue
Skillful
Discussion
Controlled
Discussion
Generative
Dialogue
Dialectic
Debate
Talk – explore
causes and
assumptions
Listen – without
resistance
Focused
thought and talk
Power talk
Talk – new insights
flow
Analysis and talk
Talk – protect
a position
(+)
(-)
Talk – tensions and
synthesis
Talk – different
opinions
Fundamental
choice point
Fundamental
choice point

18. Lose connection to the whole,
and meaning of the whole
Seeing partial feelings as
complete, “noble certainties”
Unquestioned acceptance of
existing “thoughts” and “felts”
Thought that imposes or
defends is violent

19. † ‡

21. Lose connection to the whole,
and meaning of the whole
Seeing partial feelings as
complete, “noble certainties”
Unquestioned acceptance of
existing “thoughts” and “felts”
Thought that imposes or
defends is violent

29. Lose connection to the whole,
and meaning of the whole
Seeing partial feelings as
complete, “noble certainties”
Unquestioned acceptance of
existing “thoughts” and “felts”
Thought that imposes or
defends is violent

32. Lose connection to the whole,
and meaning of the whole
Seeing partial feelings as
complete, “noble certainties”
Unquestioned acceptance of
existing “thoughts” and “felts”
Thought that imposes or
defends is violent

35. Lose connection to the whole,
and meaning of the whole
Seeing partial feelings as
complete, “noble certainties”
Unquestioned acceptance of
existing “thoughts” and “felts”
Thought that imposes or
defends is violent

37. I am aware of many different
voices within myself
I must look for the ways in which
everything is already whole
A constant implicate potential
unfolding through and around us
I am in the world, and the
world is in me

45. http://slideshare.net/micrimson