{"id":2614,"date":"2017-09-29T11:40:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T19:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theworldcafe.com\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2020-11-07T08:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T16:48:31","slug":"hosting-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/hosting-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosting Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In my career, as a Chief Executive Officer in a large nonprofit organization, I\u2019ve had the opportunity to participate in meetings with my counterparts around the world. Forty cultures all in one place. Forty leaders common in their vision. And forty different worlds to work in realizing those visions. How do you hold a meeting that unites, energizes, and appreciates the nuances of our very real differences despite the ties that bind us in common purpose? I\u2019ve sat through the Board room meetings frustrated by the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the \u201cone person talks at a time\u201d approach, while everyone agrees the real value is during the break, and meals.<\/p>\n

When given the opportunity to apply World Caf\u00e9 approaches to this group, the outcomes were stunningly different. Relationships were deepened, energy was created. Agreements were forged.  Partnership emerged. Collaborations were ventured. And in the end a standing ovation in response to the peak pleasure of the experience. It\u2019s hard to measure the impact, yet easy to contract the difference of potential from days wasted of formal agenda, preliminary rule and \u201cone at a time\u201d communication compared to the excitement, vitality, and energy present in a World Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n

It was breathtaking to watch people from forty cultures exploring their futures. I\u2019ve wondered a lot over the years how the World Caf\u00e9 might serve the United Nations. A dream.<\/p>\n

Paul E Borawski
\nChief Executive Officer, (ret)
\nASQ (American Society for Quality)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my career, as a Chief Executive Officer in a large nonprofit organization, I\u2019ve had the opportunity to participate in meetings with my counterparts around the world. Forty cultures all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,774],"tags":[870,107,871,744,326,869,41],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-collective-intelligence","tag-asq","tag-conversational-leadership","tag-opportunity","tag-paul-borawski","tag-relationship","tag-stepping-in","tag-the-world-cafe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6sDis-Ga","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3738,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/3738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}