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King Arthur's Round Table: How Collaborative Conversations Create Smart Organizations
Your organization functions and grows through conversations-face-to-face and electronic, from the mailroom to the boardroom. The quality of those conversations determines how smart your organization is. This revelatory book shows you how the Round Table of Arthurian legend can help foster collaboration and transform today's world of business, nonprofits, and government.
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...moreHardcover, 274 pages
Published
January 14th 2003
by John Wiley & Sons
(first published December 27th 2002)
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Perkins is such a wonderful synthesizer. Every time I read one of his books, I feel like I have actually ready more than one book. He captures and explains the thinking of others when he is covering a specific topic or idea. His use of metaphors, analogies and stories make reading it so much more engaging. And, because he is a cognitive scientist, he knows the importance of repetition. Each chapter ends with a synopsis of key points.
By all reviews, this book is an excellent guide to collaboration and group-think. And it is that to be sure. But for me, it is more of a plodding workbook, long on explanation and short on inspiration. I need more inspiration. The integration of the King Arthur myth and processes described, which is the reason I bought the book, seems forced and contrived. But when I find myself in need of a how-to-do-it-in-detail set of directions, this will be one of the books I will turn to.
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