Creating Organizational Value through Dialogical Leadership: Boiling Rice in Still Water

In this book following concepts are elaborated and applied to Dialogical Leadership.
ENERGY/INFORMATION: by freeing energy we acquire information from the world around us and our selves.
BODY/Embodied: man has a ground structure derived from the body; human being is basically embodied – body in the mind.FREEING ENERGY: man is capable to free energy, by which transformational space can be created, i.e. being less depended on nature (bounded energy).METAPHOR/SYMBOL: language referring to a multi-interpretation of the world around us and our selves.RELATIONAL CO-CONSTRUCTING: a view of the world around us and our selves is created through relational co-constructive processes.DIALOGICAL SELF (I-POSITIONS)/: man is capable of developing multiple positions in relation to self (internal I-positions) and the world around (external I-positions). DIALOGUE/DEBATE: a form of conversation, inquiring assumptions versus defending opinions.GENERATIVE DIALOGUE: Dialogue is positioned on the junction of time (past, present, future) and space (internal; external) as a transforming process of emerging new meaning.TRANSFORMATIONAL SPACE: contains physical, temporal, relational aspects as designated in Japanese concept ‘ma’. It also refers to silence. Man is capable of ‘being space’.