Bernhard Schieber

World Café Recurrence as Consensus

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A repeated World Café theme is not automatically consensus or a mandate. Preserve minority views and trace how ideas circulated and were combined. Use further evidence and an explicit decision process before treating the harvest as representative knowledge or an instruction for action.

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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.

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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.

Executive Insight BriefWorld Café: Connect Distributed Perspectives Without Mistaking Recurrence for ConsensusRead the brief →

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