Bateson for Business
In this seventh metalogue, Gregory Bateson’s daughter asks him, “Daddy, what is an instinct?” Their conversation takes them on a journey that covers gravity, genes, chromosomes, learning to play the Continue Reading →
In this metalogue, Bateson and his daughter talk about the meanings evoked by dance. This teaches us something about what it takes to build a strong brand. But unfortunately, Bateson Continue Reading →
In this metalogue about innovation, Gregory Bateson talks about the need to break apart conventional thinking, yet also holding on to some deeper rules of the ‘conversation’ in order to avoid going mad. Continue Reading →
In the second metalogue (“Why do Frenchmen?”), Gregory Bateson tells us about how information can be communicated with gestures instead of words, and how that is a different sort of information from what we use words Continue Reading →
In this metalogue the daughter asks her father: “Daddy, why do Frenchmen wave their arms about?” They discuss how we manage to communicate so much without words, and what we are Continue Reading →