The Seven Basic Plots
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of ‘basic stories’ in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient...
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Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together
Dialogue provides practical guidelines for one of the essential elements of true partnership–learning how to talk together in honest and effective ways. Reveals how problems between managers and employees, and between companies or divisions within a larger corporation, stem from an inability to conduct a successful dialogue.
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We Need Dialogue Not Debate
In a perceptive column in the Sunday Times on 5th April 2020[1], whilst lamenting what he...
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Inter-group hostility.
One of the first posts I write about “us and them” and “stories”
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