Gurteen Knowledge Cafe, Melbourne, Oct 2008

Gurteen Knowledge Café Melbourne October 2008

The birth of the Gurteen Knowledge Cafe London, September 2002

Business is a conversation Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations. David Weinberger The Cluetrain Manifesto ,[object Object],[object Object]

Conversation is a meeting of minds 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, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards. Theodore Zeldin Conversation ,[object Object],[object Object]

KM is about understanding For all our knowledge, we have no idea what we're talking about. We don't understand what's going on in our business, our market, and our world. KM shouldn’t be about helping us to know more. It should be about helping us to understand. So, how do we understand things? It's through stories that we understand how the world works. David Weinberger, The Cluetrain Manifesto ,[object Object],[object Object]

Conversation “A mechanistic and unproductive exchange between people seeking to defend their own views against one another” “A frank exchange of ideas or views on a specific issue in an effort to attain mutual understanding” Debate or dialogue?

Dialogue ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The kind of conversation I’m interested in is one in which you start with a willingness to emerge a slightly different person. Theodore Zeldin, Historian

Principles of Dialogue ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Dialogue is based on the work of the physicist David Bohm

Dialogue Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. David Bohm, Physicist

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Gurteen Knowledge Café Process

Knowledge Sharing ,[object Object],[object Object],Peter Senge

Personal Reasons for Sharing ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Barriers to Knowledge Sharing ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Karl-Eric Sveiby

The Challenge of Knowledge Sharing What prevents us from sharing our knowledge more effectively and how might we overcome these barriers?

www.gurteen.com David Gurteen Gurteen Knowledge Tel: +44 1252 812 878 Email: david.gurteen@gurteen.com

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Gurteen Knowledge Cafe, Melbourne, Oct 2008

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