Talking Toward Truth ― Inspiring New Options Through Dialogue

This book emerges as we seek ways to respond to our culture wars at home and our ideological conflicts globally. Balancing realism and optimism talking toward truth provides a foothold to those who despair of productive conversations about conflicting views.

Having spent his career in leadership development, Anthony Jerome Rogers PhD addresses the leaders of our organizations who have the potential to influence so many of us. Ranging from the relationships of CEOs and their stakeholders to parents and children, Rogers renews the tradition of transformative dialogue for today’s situation. He offers his t3 dialogue model©—talking toward truth—as a practical response to the complexities that divide us. Informed by decades of research and practice, the book is filled with illustrations, tools and case studies.

Rogers reminds us that truth is an unfolding journey rather than a certain destination. And he helps us avoid the tendency to accept uneasy relativism or cynical power struggles as our only options when confronted by multiple views. To engage the multiplicity of inner and outer voices that shape our personalities is crucial to the journey. The book guides us through the paradox that our deepest values are the source of our greatest strife and hope for reconciliation.

Rogers depicts the balanced interplay of empathy, curiosity, transparency, and authority within inner and outer conversations. Explore how you can improve your capacity to manage complexity, develop your coaching techniques, foster innovation, gain insight into our “culture wars,” and apply the insights from psychology, philosophy and literature to your leadership practice. Applying his accessible yet nuanced concept of “t³” dialogue, you will be more prepared to grapple with the complexities and polarities that challenge individuals and organizations both.

In Talking Toward Truth, Rogers covers

• the concept of dialogue and how dialogue can fail,
• the difference between dialogic and monologic experience,
• the relationship between our inner conversations and our interactions with others,
• the skills to create dialogic space,
• the leader’s role in facilitating t³ dialogues within organizations,
• the ways to address breakdown in dialogues, and
• the conflicts of ideology that dialogue can help assuage.

Based on his decades of research and practice in a variety of settings, Rogers also includes practical illustrations and real case examples to show you the how and why of his techniques. Using Rogers’ methods, you can become a more creative and inspiring leader through the power of dialogue.