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Zusatztext 57518831 Informationen zum Autor Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea Klappentext All modern group processes that are open to collaboration or to flattening the hierarchy are based in some way on circle practices. As organizations of all kinds move increasingly toward shared and rotating leadership, they are calling on the circle model to form sustainable teams and adopt circle driven group processes such as World Café, Open Space and Art of Hosting . Meetings in the round have become the preferred tool for moving individual commitment into group action. This book lays out the structure of circle conversation, based on the original work of the co-authors who have studied and standardized the essential elements that constitute circle practice. It takes readers through a circle visual (the Components of Circle) and presents both structure and story so that readers understand how these elements come into play and how they interrelate and interact. It also embeds circle process experience in stories and examples drawing on the authors' 15 years of experience as global thought leaders and originators of this form, and it presents detailed instructions and suggestions for getting started, setting goals, and solving conflicts.Where Circle Comes From and Where It Can Take Us The room sizzles with tension. Emotions are high, opinions are formed, polarities harden, and alliances and divisions are drawn. Twelve women and men dressed in the current armor of business are about to engage one another on the battlefield of a contentious meeting. In the next two hours, they will decide things that shape their organization's future. The agenda is overfull, and there will be insufficient time for discussion or consideration of consequences. Perhaps this doesn't matter, as the decisions have essentially been made through background e-mails, late and early cell phone calls, text messages, and side conversations in the catacomb of cubicles and corner offices. The players wander in: the CEO, the guy from accounting, department managers, and supervisors. The boss's assistant sets up coffee, flip charts, and related papers and gets ready to take notes. These are good people. These are the people who keep business runningin the United States, Canada, Europe, India, China, Australia and the Pacific nations, Latin and South America, and Africa. Wherever there is enough stability in society to hold together commerce and community, some variation of these people gather, around the clock, around the world. They have spouses and partners and children they love whom they send off to school in the mornings and cheer at soccer games. They walk the dog, pet the cat, read the paper, watch television, and enjoy a good meal and perhaps a glass of wine or a cup of tea to draw a line through the end of the day. They put the kids to bed and often head back to their laptops or hand-helds to tend to correspondence they have no time for in the rush of their workday. Two to three hundred e-mails a day, they tell us, and we're required to have our BlackBerrys on 24/7. Another one says, I get up every night at two A.M. to see if the early meetings have been changedsometimes we have to be here by six A.M., and I have an hour commute. Then I have to wake my husband and negotiate how we're doing the kids if I'm gone by fivesurprising how many other road warriors are on the freeway that time of day. A man laughs sardonically: I sometimes think of myself as a six-figure lemming rushing toward the cliff. I was going to transition out, but my financial parachute burned up back in 2009. Now I'm just grateful to have made it through the layoffs. Underneath their resignation is tremendous frustration at what it takes to run the world this wayand to be run by the world. And the place that much of this underlying discontent shows up is in how we run our meetingshow we greet and ...
ldquo;A perfect travel guide for all who are committed to making the world a better place. The circle deserves to become an independent field of study, and this book gets that going. Read it.’
—Peter Block, author of Stewardship, Flawless Consulting, and Community
“This superb book, put into practice, can transform the way you work and live.”
—Parker J. Palmer, founder, Center for Courage & Renewal, and author of A Hidden Wholeness, Let Your Life Speak, and The Courage to Teach
“Practical and poetic, The Circle Way guides us to the heart of hosting conversations that make a difference. It is a terrific contribution to increasing conversational literacy for addressing today’s complex and challenging issues.”
—Peggy Holman, coeditor and coauthor of *The Change Handbook