How People Harness Their Collective Wisdom And Power: To Construct The Future in Co-Laboratories of Democracy

, by Christakis, Alexander N.

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ISBN: 9781593114817 | 1593114818
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Copyright: 2/28/2006

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Foreword

Prologue

Acknowledgments

xix

Introduction

xxiii

PART I Evolution of Dialogue

(22)

1. Classic Athenian Democracy: Many Thanks to Plutarch

(4)

2. The Allure of Participative Democracy

(10)

3. The Unshakeable Human Burdens of Dialogue

(6)

PART II Architecture of the Structured Design Process (SDP)

(40)

4. Six Consensus Methods

(6)

5. Seven Language Patterns

(6)

6. Three Phases and Three Key Role Distinctions

(10)

7. Four Stages of Inquiry

(2)

8. Collaborative Software and Facility

(6)

9. Six Dialogue Laws

(2)

10. Relieving the Burdens of Dialogue

(6)

PART III Co-laboratories in Action

(64)

11. Overview of the Methodology

(10)

12. Customized SDP Application

(12)

13. Designing a CAP for Good Review Practices

(6)

14. Master Plan for a New Product

(6)

15. Anticipating Alternative Futures in Energy Efficiency

(12)

16. Wisdom of the People Forum

111

(4)

17. International Boundary-Spanning Dialogues

115

(6)

18. Community-Based Co-Laboratory of Democracy

121

(6)

PART IV A Science of Dialogic Design

127

(62)

19. Context of the Science

129

(10)

20. A People Science

139

(8)

21. Conscious Evolution

147

(8)

22. Axioms and Definitions

155

(6)

23. Six Dialogue Laws

161

(14)

24. A Science of Dialogic Design

175

(6)

25. Measuring Observer Spreadthink and Situational Complexity

181

(8)

PART V Constructing the Future

189

(32)

26. Transformational Leadership

191

(12)

27. Being Successful in Web-World

203

(6)

28. Constructing Agoras of the Global Village

209

(2)

Epilogue

211

(2)

References

213

(8)

APPENDICIES

A. A Hypothetical Case of Strategic Management

221

(18)

B. The RootCause Mapping Software

239

(2)

C. Constructing Agoras of the Global Village

241

(8)

D. Chronic Kidney Disease

249

(20)

Index

269

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