Have a Conversation That Matters in Your Organization

The World Café is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing collective knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. Here Juanita Brown and David Isaacs outline seven core design principles and provide practical tips and tools for convening and hosting “conversations that matter,” with groups of any size.

Filled with stories of actual Café dialogues in business, education, government, and community organizations across the globe, The World Café shows how this unique approach can be adapted to any setting or culture. Examples from such varied organizations as Hewlett-Packard, American Society for Quality, the nation of Singapore, the University of Texas, and many others, demonstrate the process in action.

Based on living systems thinking, this proven approach will foster authentic dialogue and the creation of dynamic networks of conversation in your organization or community––improving both personal relationships and people’s capacity to shape the future together.

“Required reading for anyone who cares about a better tomorrow. It offers tools that can convert analysis into profound change and provides a structure for connecting people that is pure genius.”
—Peter Block, author of Stewardship and The Answer to How Is Yes

"This book tells the truth: If you change the conversation, you can change the future. Just as important, this book tells you how to do it. It can inspire all of us to create a better future in our work and in our lives."
—Alan M. Webber, Founding Editor, Fast Company

"CEOs will be amazed by the practical simplicity of the ideas in this book. I urge other leaders to employ this simple, but powerful approach for thinking together which ultimately improves the bottom line."
—Roger Saillant, President and CEO, Plug Power, Inc.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man DVD

Amy Goodman’s radio and TV show, Democracy Now, was the first broadcast media outlet to recognize the importance of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and to have John Perkins on as a guest. Goodman’s hour-long interview was instrumental in bringing the book to the attention of a wide audience and making it a national bestseller.

Now the Amy Goodman interview is available on DVD

Under Goodman’s intelligent, probing questioning, Perkins expands on the themes in the book, discussing his expe-riences all over the world as an economic hit man, his friendship with Omar Torijos, the involvement of people like Robert McNamara and George Schultz, and how he came to write this extraordinary book.