King Arthur's Round Table: How Collaborative Conversations Create Smart Organizations - Couverture rigide

Perkins, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0471237728 ISBN 13 : 9780471237723

Editeur : Wiley, 2004

Synopsis

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.

"When I want a group to work effectively, I turn immediately to my colleague of thirty-five years, David Perkins. This book is a distillation of his knowledge and wisdom."
-Howard Gardner
author of Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Intelligence Reframed

"David Perkins applies his wit and inventive mind to create a fresh perspective on the world of collaboration in organizations. His archetypes and toolboxes offer valuable insights to anyone facing the challenges of collaborative problem solving."
-David Straus
author of How to Make Collaboration Work

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

DAVID PERKINS is a senior professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a founding member of Harvard's Project Zero, a research outfit focused on cognitive-symbolic capacities and their implications for learning in all settings, and for many years codirected the project with renowned education specialist Howard Gardner. He is also the author of The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking, Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence, and Smart Schools: Better Thinking and Learning for Every Child.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0471237728
• ISBN 13: 9780471237723
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible