The Knowledge Café: How do you bring the bureaucrats and lunatics together?

The knowledge Café (Café) is a conversational mindset and a space to cross-fertilize all kinds of ideas, exchange knowledge, and build relational capital. Conversations are like ping-pong games. But, how do we get people to go bowling? Peter Drucker said that “Organizations need two kinds of people—bureaucrats and lunatics. The challenge is, how do you get them to work together effectively (exchange knowledge)? You need bureaucrats for administration, but you need lunatics for innovation. Innovation never comes from bureaucrats, who often try to change the lunatics or force them out.” Words in parenthesis are mine. The Café is lunatics-and-crazy-idea friendly. The Café enables those curious knowledge workers/learners with crazy ideas and knowledge to bring it on for other curious and caffeinated knowledge workers to test them out. It’s safe at the café. Non-judgmental.

 The Knowledge Cafe is a blueprint for creating the right environment for knowledge transfer and stewardship. The Knowledge Café will radically change the way we learn and exchange knowledge. It’s a conversational space and mindset. Everyone’s voice needs to be heard. Is knowledge-sharing the same as opinion-sharing? You'll find out.

The premium on knowledge and agility has never been greater. This book offers “when-where-how-to” design a café, a technique for managing knowledge toward the greater good. You’ll see tips, templates, practical and relatable experiences, case studies, examples of knowledge brokers, creators, and sharers across cultures are sprinkled throughout the book to show how the Knowledge Café interfaces with other KM techniques for different work and project spaces. You have some knowledge, crazy ideas, hard-to-solve family, community or organizational problems, need a dialogue, not a debate, or knowledge-exchange/learning style, your way? Come to the Knowledge café and be wowed and mesmerized!

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• Berrett-Koehler Publishers: https://www.bkconnection.com/books/title/The-Knowledge-Ca 

 What great minds are saying about the Café book:

“The Knowledge Café brings people together to have open, creative conversations to surface their collective knowledge, to share ideas, and to gain a deeper understanding of a topic. It can be adapted for a variety of purposes and, at its best, is a powerful sense-making tool. In this book, Benjamin Anyacho explores the world of Knowledge Café and its relation to Knowledge Management.” -- David Gurteen, Gurteen Knowledge

 “Everyone needs a knowledge café in their world today! Indeed, all curious knowledge workers need space and a mindset to share crazy ideas for others to test out and deepen their own knowledge and understanding.” -- Denise A. D. Bedford, Ph.D., Communication Culture and Technology, Georgetown University 

  “Knowledge Café is an excellent recipe for an innovative culture, where an open exchange of knowledge and ideas is judgment-free and includes respect and understands vulnerability.”   -- Todd Kimbrell, former Chief Information Officer, State of Texas, and Senior Advisory Consultant at BCforward

“Anyacho provides motivation, insight, and practical advice on convening and facilitating ‘knowledge cafes’ - where people can share what they know, learn from others, brainstorm solutions, and build relationships. This simple yet effective technique has a wide range of applications and is essential to fostering a learning culture.” -- Frances Harrison, Chief Technical Officer, Spy Pond Partners, LLC

 “One of my biggest issues in the corporate space is knowledge transfer. The Knowledge Café is a complete and utter joy. Its depth and breadth are not only needed now but provides permission to everyone to feel heard, acknowledged, and valued.” -- Sally Anderson, Leadership Coach To The Influencers, New Zealand

 This revolutionary concept, the knowledge café, will become a popular global franchise where we feed our souls and minds. An incredible gift to our world and our generation.” -- Dr. Sunday Adelaja, Kyiv, Ukraine

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