Chapter 17
Conversational Actions
Clashing Views • Download • Debate • Dialogue • Collective Flow of Presence • Conversational Fields and Their Anti-fields • Using Dialogue Interviews in Organizations • Evolutionary Pathways of Conversational Fields
At the beginning of this book and in image 6, I compared our family farm’s agricultural fields to social fields that describe the quality of social interaction. Conversations are the living embodiment of social fields, and they are an important starting point for improving social interaction. In my research in and my work with organizations, I have made two observations:
1. Conversations are enacted ...
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