Bøger af Maria Flores Letelier

How do we create value for ourselves and others while at the same time participating in today's 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 Maria's 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.

¿Cómo creamos valor para nosotros y para los demás mientras simultáneamente participamos en la actual economía de libre mercado? ¿Cómo producimos resultados mientras a la vez desarrollamos relaciones en que nos cuidamos los unos a los otros durante el proceso? Hoy, en vez de involucrarnos alegremente en amplias redes de personas, estamos cada vez más estresados en nuestras relaciones de trabajo. Con la tecnología en red, desconectarnos se hace cada vez más difícil. Debemos aprender habilidades que nos permitan construir confianza, coordinar nuestros compromisos de manera más efectiva, escucharnos y construir redes de compromisos con el objetivo de generar valor para nosotros, para nuestras familias, para las organizaciones en las cuales participamos, para nuestras comunidades, y para el mundo entero. Los ensayos de esta colección ofrecen un marco para desarrollar estas habilidades en el lugar de trabajo o en cualquier contexto donde una persona debe coordinarse con otras para hacer que algo suceda. Los ensayos describen cómo realizar compromisos efectivos que nos permitan producir algo de valor. Son versiones editadas de obras escritas por Fernando Flores en las organizaciones que él dirigió. Describiendo el marco de las redes de compromisos y conversaciones para la acción desarrollado por Flores -un marco que ha sido citado en más de tres mil libros-, el autor pinta una imagen viva del lenguaje como acción, demostrando que cuando las personas participan en conversaciones, existe la posibilidad de realizar o no realizar compromisos. Cuando se realizan compromisos, suceden cosas. Estos ensayos describen los elementos básicos para instaurar una cultura del compromisos en nuestras relaciones de trabajo, permitiéndonos concentrarnos en el valor que estamos creando juntos en vez del permanente estrés de vivir calculando intercambios basados en intereses individuales.

Javi has one goal for this upcoming vacation: to go to tennis camp. When her parents tell her the camp is too expensive, Javi learns she can raise the funds by setting up a food cart. Her uncle, Tio Bill, a lawyer who is himself becoming an entrepreneur, helps Javi to reflect on the obstacles she encounters along the way. In the course of her adventure she begins to see the importance of listening, working with others, making clear requests and promises, and overcoming the hurdles that affect any enterprise. In the middle of this, she is struck by her classmate Benji, who is able to enlist help from others in achieving his goals, and begins to wonder what he is doing that she is not. As she reflects on these experiences, Javi writes an 'Opportunity Manual' for herself-lessons for how to make opportunity happen. Through her reflections, Javi shows children how language and conversations-- the simple and taken-for-granted acts of empathetic listening and active speaking can make opportunity happen.