Drawing on the work of Maturana and Flores among others, Budd describes a powerful and insightful set of distinctions and practices that can help people see how they create themselves with their speech and their understanding of the world.

Each of these books explores how differently each of us sees and speaks about the world, and how that can readily lead to deep misunderstanding and conflict. They offer a set of distinctions and practices to develop competence in speaking, listening and navigating the world together.

The authors explore how we create the world of organisations and communities through the conversations we have, and propose concrete ways in which we might change them, and through this change ourselves. Includes a fascinating method for cutting through competing commitments.

Explores what it takes for people to speak together in a way that respects and reflects the complexity of many of the problems we face in organisations and in the world, and proposes steps to create such conversations.