Author

Brown, J.

Isaacs, D.

Corporate Author

World Cafe Community

Place of Publication

San Francisco, CA

Publisher

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

Publication Date

2005

Physical Description

Softcover: 242 p.

Subject

Learning

Leadership/Coaching

Abstract

This resource focuses on collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. This innovative approach creates dynamic networks of conversation that can catalyze an organization's or community's own collective intelligence around its most important questions.

Table of Contents:

Introduction Begining the Conversation: An Invitation to the World Cafe

Chapter 1 Seeing the Invisible: Conversation Matters!

Chapter 2 Conversation as a Core Process: Co-Creating Business and Social Value

Chapter 3 Principle 1: Set the Context

Chapter 4 Principle 2: Create Hospitable Space

Chapter 5 Principle 3: Explore Questions that Matter

Chapter 6 Principle 4: Encourage Everyone's Contribution

Chapter 7 Principle 5: Cross-Pollinate and Connect Diverse Perspectives

Chapter 8 Principle 6: Listen Together for Patterns, Insights, and Deeper Questions

Chapter 9 Principle 7: Harvest and Share Collective Discoveries

Chapter 10 Guiding the Cafe Process: The Art of Hosting

Chapter 11 Conversational Leadership: Cultivating Collective Intelligence

Chapter 12 The Call of Our Times: Creating a Culture of Dialogue

Epilogue How Can We Talk It Through

Afterword Discovering the Magic of Collective Creativity

ISBN

9781576752586

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF AA 75 BRO 2005

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Author

King, Christopher

Henretig, Fred

King, Brent

Loiselle, John

Edition

2nd

Place of Publication

Philadelphia, PA

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer

Publication Date

2007

Physical Description

Hardcover, 1344 pp

Subjects

Pediatrics

Emergency Procedures

Subject

Emergency Medicine

Leadership/Coaching

Abstract

Widely acclaimed for its outstanding step-by-step illustrations, comprehensive coverage, and reader-friendly format, Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Procedures is now in its thoroughly updated Second Edition. In 137 chapters, the book provides clear, complete instructions on every emergency medicine procedure performed on infants, children, and adolescents. More than 1,000 detailed drawings, most in two-color, show howto perform each procedure. This edition includes a new chapter on new technologies and techniques for managing the difficult airway. Other new topics include use of tissue adhesives in laceration repair, focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST), management of priapism, reimplanting an avulsed permanent tooth, use of automatic external defibrillators, and procedures related to bioterrorism.

ISBN

978-0781753869

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF EB 800 KIN 2007

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