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The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter | 
| Authors: Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, World Cafe Community
Creators: Margaret J. Wheatley, Peter Senge
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 24843
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 300
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 1576752585
Dewey Decimal Number: 302.346
EAN: 9781576752586
ASIN: 1576752585
Publication Date: April 10, 2005
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Product Description
The World Cafe is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing collective knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. World Cafe originators Juanita Brown and David Isaacs outline seven core design principles and provide practical tips and tools for convening and hosting "conversations that matter," even with very large groups. Each chapter features actual stories of Cafe dialogues from business, education, government, and community organizations across the globe, demonstrating how the World Cafe approach can be adapted to many different settings and cultures. Based on living systems thinking, this is a proven approach for fostering authentic dialogue and creating dynamic networks of conversation around your organization or communitys real work and critical questionsimproving both personal relationships and peoples capacity to shape the future together.
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 A Great Idea that Needs a Better Book April 7, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an incredibly hard book for me to review. As with some other business books I've read in the past, I think the ideas are good and useful. On the other hand, despite its deceptively friendly appearance, I find this an incredibly difficult book to read.br /br /My main complaint is simple and, again, commonplace among books of this type: it is entirely too long for what it is trying to achieve. This is a two hundred-plus page book that could have easily accomplished its purpose in thirty pages. It is bulked up by vagueness, repetitiveness and numerous personal anecdotes that are only occasionally useful. With much more direct and succinct writing, the authors could have given us a clearer picture of how to make the world cafe process unfold.br /br /Still, it needs be said that the world cafe idea is a good one. I've used it a few times in meetings and it has always been successful. If you're looking for what the world cafe is about, this is the place.
 The Wisdom of The Team March 7, 2008
As CEO Coach, Poet and author of a leadship book that helps leaders unleash the genius of themselves, their teams and their businesses, I recomend this book. I have been through the process described in this book and find it an excellent way to discover the wisdom of a team or a company. Paul David Walker Unleashing Genius: Leading Yourself, Teams and Corporations
abbeypress December 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book provides useful insight on leading discussions of diverse groups. I found the ideas to be a fresh way of looking at the discussion process. Especially useful for classroom and retreat situations.br /
World Cafe: An Introduction May 11, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book gives a nice overview of World Cafe's. Good introductory text. This is really a book about setting the stage for good conversations that are meaningful and productive.
World Cafe: Makes Complex Conversations Easy April 10, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Full of clear and sensible information about how to manage complex conversations and consultations with large and diverse groups. A pleasantly 'unacademic' approach to achieving good results.
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