Full name: The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter

Author: Juanita Brown Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Business, Leadership, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781576752586 1576752585

The World Cafe is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. Based on living systems thinking, this innovative approach creates dynamic networks of conversation that can catalyze an organization or community's own collective intelligence around its most important questions. Filled with stories of actual Cafe dialogues in business, education, government, and community organizations across the globe, this uniquely crafted book demonstrates how the World Cafe can be adapted to any setting or culture. Examples from such varied organizations as Hewlett-Packard, American Society for Quality, the nation of Singapore, the University of Texas, and many others, demonstrate the process in action. Along with its seven core design principles, The World Cafe offers practical tips for hosting "conversations that matter" in groups of any size- strengthening both personal relationships and people's capacity to shape the future together. Similar books: Zero to One by Peter Thiel The 1-Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull Scaling Up by Verne Harnish Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller The Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz Scaling Lean by Ash Maurya ROCK Your Network Marketing Business by Sarah Robbins Disrupt You! by Jay Samit The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by Jack Bogle How To Market A Book by Joanna Penn Running Lean by Ash Maurya Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk How to Make Your Money Last by Jane Bryant Quinn Exponential Organizations by Salim Ismail If You Can by William J. Bernstein Getting Naked by Patrick Lencioni A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel