The Value of Conversation

Posted by Carol Coletta on October 16, 2009

A simple buffet -- meatless lasagna, salad and garlic bread. Ten people, eight locals, two outsiders.   A two-minute opportunity for each to plant new ideas about how to make San Francisco a better place.

Today a friend sends the economic development plan for a university district in a different city, suggesting that what's really needed is a good micro-brewery to encourage conviviality.

Maybe we need a designation:  Chief of Conversation.  Chief Connector.  Chief of Dinner Parties. 

It sounds so trivial.  So why is conversation so powerful?