“What Can Conversation Do for Us?”

Originally posted in our June 2023 Top of Mind Newsletter.

In the vein of entrepreneurial leadership, one core capability Senge et al. discuss is the importance of fostering reflection and generative conversation. In this recent piece from the New Yorker, we read about the “civilizing power of conversation” and how we’ve fallen so far from this as a society.

“As the philosopher Michael Oakeshott observed, in conversation, ‘there is no ‘truth’ to be discovered, no proposition to be proved, no conclusion sought.’ What matters, he continued, is the ‘low of speculation.’” Conversation, much like entrepreneurial discovery, is not necessarily about the destination but rather about encouraging participants to delve deep while promoting psychological safety. 

Check out the article at the link below:

Let’s have a conversation