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Conversation by Theodore ZeldinHow Talk Can Change Your Life (1998) |
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This is a fascinating and delightful little book by Theodore Zeldin - a fellow of St Anthony's College, Oxford. Basically the book is about the importance of conversation in our lives. It explains how conversation is at the root of creativity; how it is better than laws in helping to change our mind-sets and how it can make life more interesting, friendly or passionate. Its real aim seems to be to stimulate conversation itself and our thinking about how and why we talk. As he points out - we often think more about what we will wear to a social gathering than what we will talk about. It is a stimulating book though it does tend to focus on extolling the virtues of good conversation and is rather light on explaining how to hold better conversations. What has conversation got to do with Knowledge Management and Learning? Well, Zeldin discusses how conversation can penetrate the intellectual barriers that are often associated with specialized professions. And he comments that "The really big scientific revolutions have been the invention not of some new machine, but of new ways of talking about things." To my mind, it is in conversations that we start to create new knowledge and begin to really learn about the world - both from a business and personal perspective.
Article  In Conversation: Learn to Listen and to Tell the Truth by David GurteenA short article on conversation Blog Post Theodore Zeldin on InspirationGurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 2 February 2004 Self-portraits and BloggingGurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 1 March 2004 Zeldin I LOVE the stuff you do!Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 24 August 2009 An interview with Theodore ZeldinPosted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 15 November 2009 Are many conversations pointless and does technology discourage face to face interaction?Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 18 August 2010 Conversation down the pub with Theodore ZeldinPosted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 28 August 2011 A conversation doesn't just shuffle the deck of cards -- it creates new onesPosted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 27 September 2011 Knowledge Menu a la Carte in TurinPosted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 21 January 2012 Take a Seat and Make a FriendPosted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 28 December 2013 Intimate Conversations Cafe: What would you like engraved on your tombstone?Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 28 July 2014 Book  An Intimate History of Humanity (Jan 1996) by Theodore Zeldin Conversation (1998) by Theodore ZeldinHow Talk Can Change Your Life Category  Conversation [127 items]Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. Knowledge-Letter Gurteen Knowledge-Letter: Issue 20 - 4th February 2002 Gurteen Knowledge-Letter: Issue 21 - 4th March 2002Link Oxford UniversityOxford University, England The Oxford MuseTheodore Zeldin's website Media File  Video: Theodore Zeldin discusses the results of the Courage Beer Conversations Survey.Theodore Zeldin discusses the results of the Courage Beer Conversations Survey Person  Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & AuthorQuotation  On being a catalyst by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author On breakthroughs in the way we treat each other by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author On changing the way you think by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author On conversation and emerging a slightly different person by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author On deciding what kind of conversations we have by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author On impoverishing ourselves by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author On individuals by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author On invention and progress by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author On personal history by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author On technology and communication by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author On your adequacy as a human being by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author We are so steeped in debate by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author When minds meet by Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & AuthorQuotations from Conversation:  Change the way you think, and you are halfway to changing the world.Theodore Zeldin, (b. 1933) Historian & Author The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.Theodore Zeldin, (b. 1933) Historian & Author It's up to us to decide on the kind of conversations we have.
The way we talk at the office or factory shapes the work we do; it's not just machines which force us to be obedient. I want to show how we could make our work a lot less boring and frustrating if we learned to talk differently. Theodore Zeldin, (b. 1933) Historian & Author Technology does not automatically improve conversation, communication or behaviourTheodore Zeldin, (b. 1933) Historian & Author Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits.
When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, and engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards. Theodore Zeldin, (b. 1933) Historian & Author
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