Suspension keeps assumptions and reactions visible without immediately defending or suppressing them. Participants listen to their own thinking as well as to others. The practice makes convictions discussable without requiring neutrality, agreement, or treating every urgent decision as an open-ended dialogue.
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- DomainGroups & Decisions
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Editorial orientation · Entry type
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Related entries name an idea, effect or practice that belongs to a model or tool of the series. They are not models or tools themselves and are not counted as such; each one leads to the model or tool it comes from, and to its Executive Insight Brief.
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.