\u201cWhat keeps us going? (The ability) to integrate what we know into what’s novel and what’s novel into what we know.\u201d<\/p>\n
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These are books by friends, colleagues and other leading authors that have informed and contributed to World Caf\u00e9 thought leadership:<\/p>\n
Appreciative Inquiry<\/a>, by David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney The Art of Convening<\/a>, by Craig & Patricia Neal, with Cindy Wold The Art of Possibility<\/a>, by Benjamin Zander and Rosamund Stone Zander Artful Leadership<\/a>, by Michael Jones Authentic Conversations<\/a>, by Jamie Showkier and Maren Showkier The Back of the Napkin<\/a>, by Dan Roam Calling the Circle<\/a>, by Christina Baldwin The Change Handbook<\/a>, Eds Peggy Holman, Steven Cady, and Tom Devane Community: The Structure of Belonging<\/a>, by Peter Block Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together<\/a>, by William Isaacs Digital Habitats<\/a>, by Nancy White, Etienne Wenger and John Smith Engaging Emergence<\/a>, by Peggy Holman The Facilitative Way<\/a>, by Priscilla Wilson The Fifth Discipline<\/a>, by Peter Senge Finding Our Way<\/a>, Meg Wheatley Gracious Space<\/a>, by Patricia Hughes Informal Learning<\/a>, by Jay Cross The Complete Guide to Knowledge Management<\/a>, by Edna Pasher and Tuvya Ronen Linked<\/a>, by Albert-L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Barab\u00e1si Making Questions Work<\/a>, by Dorothy Strachan Mapping Inner Space<\/a>, by Nancy Margulies Nature and the Human Soul<\/a>, by Bill Plotkin On Dialogue<\/a>, by David Bohm Power and Love<\/a>, by Adam Kahane The Power of Collective Wisdom and the Trap of Collective Folly<\/a>, by Alan Briskin, Sheryl Ericson, John Ott, and Tom Callanan Presence<\/a>, by Betty Sue Flowers, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski. and Peter Senge The Starfish and the Spider<\/a>, by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom Theory U<\/a>, by Otto Scharmer The Thin Book of Naming Elephants<\/a>, by Sue Annis Hammond & Andrea Mayfield Visual Meetings<\/a>, by David Sibbet (see also\u00a0<\/span>Visual Teams<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>Visual Leaders<\/strong>) Walk Out Walk On<\/a>, by Meg Wheatley and Debbie Frieze \u201cWhat keeps us going? (The ability) to integrate what we know into what’s novel and what’s novel into what we know.\u201d ~ Peggy HolmanThese are books by friends, colleagues and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"These are books by friends, colleagues and other leading authors that have informed and contributed to World Caf\u00e9 thought leadership:\n\nAppreciative Inquiry<\/a>, by David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney\nWritten by the founders of AI, this short, practical guide offers an approach to organizational change based on the possibility of a more positive future.<\/em>\n\nThe Art of Convening<\/a>, by Craig & Patricia Neal, with Cindy Wold\nDetails a powerful set of principles and practices for making any gathering productive, meaningful, and transformative.<\/em>\n\nThe Art of Possibility<\/a>, by Benjamin Zander and Rosamund Stone Zander\nPresenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors.<\/em>\n\nArtful Leadership<\/a>, by Michael Jones\nAims to empower leadership development and innovation by connecting the world of the performing arts and the business world.<\/em>\n\nAuthentic Conversations<\/a>, by Jamie Showkier and Maren Showkier\nAuthentic Conversations takes a radical new look at the potentially transformational role of workplace conversations.<\/em>\n\nThe Back of the Napkin<\/a>, by Dan Roam\nExplains how to use visual-thinking tools to solve business problems and convey ideas with little more than a scrap of paper.<\/em>\n\nCalling the Circle<\/a>, by Christina Baldwin\nChristina Baldwin offers this powerful new tool to everyone who longs for a community based on honesty, equality, and spiritual integrity.<\/em>\n\nThe Change Handbook<\/a>, Eds Peggy Holman, Steven Cady, and Tom Devane\nThis definitive resource invites people and systems to gather around issues that they care about, unleashing the energy and wisdom to move their dreams into action.<\/em>\n\nCommunity: The Structure of Belonging<\/a>, by Peter Block\nOffers a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen.<\/em>\n\nDialogue: The Art of Thinking Together<\/a>, by William Isaacs\nProvides practical guidelines for one of the essential elements of true partnership--learning how to talk together in honest and effective ways.<\/em>\n\nDigital Habitats<\/a>, by Nancy White, Etienne Wenger and John Smith\nThis book develops a new social literacy and language to describe the practice of stewarding technology for communities<\/em>.\n\nEngaging Emergence<\/a>, by Peggy Holman\nShows how to spot the emergence of a new level of order from the seemingly chaotic change and offers practices and principles that will help you align yourself and your organization with the new order.<\/em>\n\nThe Facilitative Way<\/a>, by Priscilla Wilson\nThe Facilitative Way includes five approaches to working together more effectively.<\/em>\n\nThe Fifth Discipline<\/a>, by Peter Senge\nSenge explains why the \"learning organization\" matters, provides an unvarnished summary of his management principles and offers some basic tools for practicing it.<\/em>\n\nFinding Our Way<\/a>, Meg Wheatley\nA comprehensive summing up of the thought of one of the most original and creative organizational thinkers of our time.<\/em>\n\nGracious Space<\/a>, by Patricia Hughes\nGracious Space is a simple yet powerful approach to working better together. Gracious Space can move organizations and communities forward, together, with deeper understanding and problem solving.<\/em>\n\nInformal Learning<\/a>, by Jay Cross\nThis book offers advice on how to support, nurture, and leverage informal learning and helps trainers to go beyond their typical classes and programs.<\/em>\n\nThe Complete Guide to Knowledge Management<\/a>, by Edna Pasher and Tuvya Ronen\nA straightforward guide to leveraging your company's intellectual capital by creating a knowledge management culture.<\/em>\n\nLinked<\/a>, by Albert-L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Barab\u00e1si\nThe nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations, and living organisms are more similar than previously thought.<\/em>\n\nMaking Questions Work<\/a>, by Dorothy Strachan\nThis book offers over 1700 rich questions that you can borrow or adapt to improve your inquiry skills, and provides clear frameworks that point to when, where, and why particular questions are most useful.<\/em>\n\nMapping Inner Space<\/a>, by Nancy Margulies\nThis introduction to visual note taking illustrates how relationships among various concepts are highlighted and more information can be recorded visually on a page.<\/em>\n\nNature and the Human Soul<\/a>, by Bill Plotkin\nPlotkin presents a model for a human life span rooted in the patterns and rhythms of wild nature, a template for individual development that ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation.<\/em>\n\nOn Dialogue<\/a>, by David Bohm\nThis edition serves both as a practical working manual for those interested in engaging in Bohm's conception of \"dialogue\" and a deeper exploration of Bohm's dialogical world view.<\/em>\n\nPower and Love<\/a>, by Adam Kahane\nA new approach, proven in the field, for making progress on our most important and difficult collective challenges<\/em>.\n\nThe Power of Collective Wisdom and the Trap of Collective Folly<\/a>, by Alan Briskin, Sheryl Ericson, John Ott, and Tom Callanan\nAn inspired and practical approach to developing the innate power of groups to make wise, compassionate, and creative decisions.<\/em>\n\nPresence<\/a>, by Betty Sue Flowers, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski. and Peter Senge\nThis year-long series of conversations reveals the human capacity to \"presence\"\u2014to pre-sense, to become present to an emerging future.<\/em>\n\nThe Starfish and the Spider<\/a>, by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom\nA pair of Stanford M.B.A.s offer a breezy and entertaining look at how decentralization is changing many organizations.<\/em>\n\nTheory U<\/a>, by Otto Scharmer\nBy moving through the \"U\" process we learn to connect to our essential Self in the realm of \"presencing\".<\/em>\n\nThe Thin Book of Naming Elephants<\/a>, by Sue Annis Hammond & Andrea Mayfield\nThis book shows how great companies create an environment that encourages and listens to input from all levels of the organization.<\/em>\n\nVisual Meetings<\/a>, by David Sibbet (see also Visual Teams<\/strong> and Visual Leaders<\/strong>)\nVisual Meetings explains how anyone can implement powerful visual tools, and how these tools are being used to facilitate both face-to-face and virtual group work.<\/em>\n\nWalk Out Walk On<\/a>, by Meg Wheatley and Debbie Frieze\nProvides an intimate experience of how seven healthy and resilient communities took on intractable problems by working together in new and different ways.<\/em>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6sDis-F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4872,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/4872"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Written by the founders of AI, this short, practical guide offers an approach to organizational change based on the possibility of a more positive future.<\/em><\/p>\n
Details a powerful set of principles and practices for making any gathering productive, meaningful, and transformative.<\/em><\/p>\n
Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors.<\/em><\/p>\n
Aims to empower leadership development and innovation by connecting the world of the performing arts and the business world.<\/em><\/p>\n
Authentic Conversations takes a radical new look at the potentially transformational role of workplace conversations.<\/em><\/p>\n
Explains how to use visual-thinking tools to solve business problems and convey ideas with little more than a scrap of paper.<\/em><\/p>\n
Christina Baldwin offers this powerful new tool to everyone who longs for a community based on honesty, equality, and spiritual integrity.<\/em><\/p>\n
This definitive resource invites people and systems to gather around issues that they care about, unleashing the energy and wisdom to move their dreams into action.<\/em><\/p>\n
Offers a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen.<\/em><\/p>\n
Provides practical guidelines for one of the essential elements of true partnership\u2013learning how to talk together in honest and effective ways.<\/em><\/p>\n
This book develops a new social literacy and language to describe the practice of stewarding technology for communities<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Shows how to spot the emergence of a new level of order from the seemingly chaotic change and offers practices and principles that will help you align yourself and your organization with the new order.<\/em><\/p>\n
The Facilitative Way includes five approaches to working together more effectively.<\/em><\/p>\n
Senge explains why the \u201clearning organization\u201d matters, provides an unvarnished summary of his management principles and offers some basic tools for practicing it.<\/em><\/p>\n
A comprehensive summing up of the thought of one of the most original and creative organizational thinkers of our time.<\/em><\/p>\n
Gracious Space is a simple yet powerful approach to working better together. Gracious Space can move organizations and communities forward, together, with deeper understanding and problem solving.<\/em><\/p>\n
This book offers advice on how to support, nurture, and leverage informal learning and helps trainers to go beyond their typical classes and programs.<\/em><\/p>\n
A straightforward guide to leveraging your company\u2019s intellectual capital by creating a knowledge management culture.<\/em><\/p>\n
The nation\u2019s foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations, and living organisms are more similar than previously thought.<\/em><\/p>\n
This book offers over 1700 rich questions that you can borrow or adapt to improve your inquiry skills, and provides clear frameworks that point to when, where, and why particular questions are most useful.<\/em><\/p>\n
This introduction to visual note taking illustrates how relationships among various concepts are highlighted and more information can be recorded visually on a page.<\/em><\/p>\n
Plotkin presents a model for a human life span rooted in the patterns and rhythms of wild nature, a template for individual development that ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation.<\/em><\/p>\n
This edition serves both as a practical working manual for those interested in engaging in Bohm\u2019s conception of \u201cdialogue\u201d and a deeper exploration of Bohm\u2019s dialogical world view.<\/em><\/p>\n
A new approach, proven in the field, for making progress on our most important and difficult collective challenges<\/em>.<\/p>\n
An inspired and practical approach to developing the innate power of groups to make wise, compassionate, and creative decisions.<\/em><\/p>\n
This year-long series of conversations reveals the human capacity to \u201cpresence\u201d\u2014to pre-sense, to become present to an emerging future.<\/em><\/p>\n
A pair of Stanford M.B.A.s offer a breezy and entertaining look at how decentralization is changing many organizations.<\/em><\/p>\n
By moving through the \u201cU\u201d process we learn to connect to our essential Self in the realm of \u201cpresencing\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n
This book shows how great companies create an environment that encourages and listens to input from all levels of the organization.<\/em><\/p>\n
Visual Meetings explains how anyone can implement powerful visual tools, and how these tools are being used to facilitate both face-to-face and virtual group work.<\/em><\/p>\n
Provides an intimate experience of how seven healthy and resilient communities took on intractable problems by working together in new and different ways.<\/em><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"