{"product_id":"conversations-for-action-and-collected-essays-instilling-a-culture-of-commitment-in-working-relationships-9781478378488","title":"Conversations For Action and Collected Essays: Instilling a Culture of Commitment in Working Relationships","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow do we create value for ourselves and others while at the same time participating in todays free market economy? How do we produce results while at the same time developing relationships where we take care of each other in the process? Today  instead of productively and joyfully engaging with broad networks of people  we are increasingly stressed by our working relationships. With networked technology  disconnecting is becoming increasingly more difficult. In order to build productive and trusting relationships  we must learn skills that will enable us to build trust  coordinate our commitments more effectively  listen to each other and build networks of commitments for the sake of producing value for ourselves  for our families  for the organizations in which we participate  for our communities  and for our world as a whole. The essays in this collection offer a framework for developing more effective  productive relationships in the workplace or in any context where a person must coordinate with others to make something happen. The essays describe how to effectively make commitments that allow us to create something of value. Describing Flores network of commitments\/conversations for action framework  a framework that has been cited in more than three thousand books  the author paints a vivid view of language as action rather than just words that transfer information from one place (the speaker) to another (the listener). When people engage in conversations  commitments are made  and spaces of possibilities are opened up. Therefore  the theme is of instilling a culture of commitment in our working relationships  allowing us to focus on what we are creating of value together rather than the ongoing stress of attempting to calculate tradeoffs of individual interests. Edited by Maria Flores Letelier  it was Marias mission to make available works that had rested as private papers in hard copy form only for twenty to thirty years. She selected and edited a group of essays and placed them in an effective order for the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651920977973,"sku":"ByrdShop_1478378484","price":36.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781478378488.jpg?v=1781845282","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/conversations-for-action-and-collected-essays-instilling-a-culture-of-commitment-in-working-relationships-9781478378488","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}