collaboration | The World Cafe

The Nature of the World Café

by Amy Lenzo | Nov 12, 2008 | Community, Conversation, Relationship, World as Cafe

As part of a conversation with World Café stewards in Europe, Ulric Rudebeck from Sweden shared these beautiful insights on the nature of the World Café: "My friend Ulrich S(oeder) says“This question goes back to four basic semiotic dimensions: How do we relate...

Making Sense of Change Management

by Amy Lenzo | May 20, 2008 | Community, Conversation, Gift Economy

The World Cafe is mentioned in the chapter on "Complex Change" in Esther Cameron’s new book, Making Sense of Change Management, co-authored with Mike Green.

Day 3: Final Keynote and Closing

by Amy Lenzo | Nov 9, 2007 | Stories

In the conference’s last session, Peter Senge’s keynote Collaboration: The Human Face of Systems Thinking, the founding chair of SoL (Society for Organizational Learning) answers the question of how this conference grew into being. After some reflection he...

The Ultimate Source

by Ulric Rudebeck | Jul 9, 2007 | Co-Evolution

I have some further thoughts to share on UR (“UR”, by the way, refers to not only my initials but “the ultimate source or the start of everything” in Swedish, and as you may or may not know, is the city in the Bible from which Abraham originally came). In...