Communication · Executive Insight Brief · 384
Examine the assumption before the decision
A protected inquiry can make meanings, loyalties, and defensive reactions observable before ordinary problem solving closes the question.
Premise
Bohm Dialogue changes the purpose of a meeting. Instead of using conversation to reach a decision, negotiate a settlement, or produce recommendations, it creates space for a group to examine how thought and meaning are being produced collectively. For executives, the value lies upstream of decision quality: assumptions that normally travel as invisible facts can become discussable before they harden into plans, positions, and interfunctional blame.
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Editorial orientation · Family
Tool
In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.
Editorial orientation · Category
Intervention Methods & Practices
Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.
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