もしも、あなたの言葉が世界を動かすとしたら [単行本]

戦争や憎しみや、経済力ではなく、きわめてシンプルな方法（カンバセーション）によって世界を変えるための本。やさしいメッセージと感動的な詩もあわせて収録。▼本物の変化は、人々が「自分たちの気にかけていること」について話をするというシンプルな活動から始まります。「子どもたちの学校のそばに危険な交差点があるのに気づきましたか？」「身近でガンにかかる人が増えているんですって」「地雷で脚を切断する子どもがいるんですよ」「酔っ払い運転で死者が出ているのをご存じですか？」2、3人の親しい者どうしが、互いに同じことを心配していると気づく――それだけで世界が変わりはじめます。小さな対話で変化が広がっていくのです。▼私達をとりまく「問題」は大きくなるばかりでいつになっても解決できない。そう思っているあなたにも、きっと何かができる。未来に希望を取りもどすためのメッセージ・ブック。

戦争や、憎しみや、経済力ではなく、対話(カンバセーション)で世界を変える本。

世界中みんなが、ばらばらになっていると思える時に読んでください-。戦争や、憎しみや、経済力ではなく、対話(カンバセーション)で世界を変える本。未来に希望を取り戻す方法を伝授する。

It is impossible to read Turning to One Another in the wake of the devastating attack on New York City's World Trade Center and not marvel at the book's eerie and moving prescience. Of course Margaret Wheatley has already earned herself a (deserved and legit) reputation as the Oprah of "sensitive" organizational books with such titles as A Simpler Way. But this book--devoted entirely to centrality of conversation in healing everything from personal relationships to organizational dysfunction to world discord--flows so broadly and easily across the borders of genre or topic it's almost as though Wheatley intuited when writing it how the need for its message would soon skyrocket. "The intent of this book is to encourage and support you to begin conversations about things that are important to you and those near you," Wheatley writes right up front in the clean, straightforward voice that always saves her work, unlike that of so many other "New Age" gurus, from cheesiness. "It has no other purpose." She then delivers on that promise, making her points in short, succinct, finely written essays on various aspects of human understanding and connection, invoking the thinking of great humanists like Paolo Friere and Nelson Mandela, peppering her thoughts with encounters with people around the world, and then expanding on 10 "conversation starters" like "Do I feel a 'vocation to be truly human'?" "When have I experienced good listening?" and "When have I experienced working for the common good?"

Suffice to say, those looking for some worksheet-packed, three-step plan for organizational harmony won't find it here. Those willing to take a slower, harder, more thoughtful and likely more rewarding path to better relations on any level--or even those looking for the book equivalent of a cool, tall drink of water (perhaps where all change begins)--will be truly moved and genuinely inspired by Wheatley's practical, timely wisdom. --Timothy Murphy
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“I believe we can change the world if we start talking to one another again.” With this simple declaration, author Margaret Wheatley proposes that we use the increasingly popular process of conversation and dialogue as the means to develop solutions for the societal changes that need to occur both locally and globally. Wheatley asserts that the changes required in all aspects of modern life will not come from governments or large organizations, national programs, new policies or laws. The changes will be led by people—everyday people self-organizing locally with colleagues and friends to create the changes they want. Turning to One Another will help you begin conversations about things that are important to you. Wheatley begins by describing several conditions that support good conversation, including simplicity, personal courage, real listening, diversity, and several others. Ten short essays will act as “Conversation Starters,” leading people into conversations about their deepest beliefs, fears, and hopes.
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Margaret J. Wheatley is president of the Berkana Institute, a nonprofit education and scientific research foundation supporting the discovery of new organizational forms. She is the author of Leadership and the New Science, a groundbreaking international bestseller. She is also the coauthor (with Myron Kellner-Rogers) of A Simpler Way. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

ウィートリー,マーガレット
ニューヨーク大学で修士号を、ハーバード大学で博士号を取得。1973年よりコンサルティングや講演活動を行い、世界の人々に向けて新しい組織論を展開。1992年に初めて出版した『Leadership and the New Science』は世界12カ国語に翻訳され、その後発表した共著『A Simpler Way』とともに数々の賞を獲得している。現在、世界的な慈善団体、ベルカナ研究所の所長を務める

杉田 七重
東京学芸大学教育学部卒業。教員生活を経て翻訳家に(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)