Here's an interesting article by Patrick Lencioni: Virtual Teams are Worse than I Thought Dialogue on Distributed Agile Teams Pondering communication styles, our human ability to truely understand one another, and the tools we use that constrain these attempts. Peter Senge evolved the concept of dialogue for learning organizations. Extending quantum physicist, David Bohm's ideas on three basic conditions necessary for dialogue: 1) All participants must "suspend" their assumptions, literally to hold them "as if suspended before us"; 2) All participants must regard one another as colleagues; 3) There must be a 'facilitator' who 'holds the context' of dialogue. DAVIDAKOONTZ · 11 MONTHS AGO Dialogue, as it turns out, is a very old idea revered by the ancient Greeks and practiced by many "primitive" societies such as the American Indians. Yet, it is all but lost to the modern world. All...