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Third-Order Illiteracies

  • Posted by AdminCencoem
  • On September 16, 2014
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After cultural, social, and emotional illiteracy—which we refer to as second-order illiteracy—I would like to mention those that fall into a third category: third-order illiteracy. First, there is conversational illiteracy, or the inability to do what the Chilean biologist Humberto Maturana calls “lenguajear.” It is increasingly recognized and valued […]
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Listening

  • Posted by AdminCencoem
  • On August 16, 2014
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Listening: Dr. Alberto Beuchot González de la Vega, Director of the Center for Business Coaching©. As we mentioned in our previous article, we are conversationally illiterate. And that illiteracy isn’t limited to our inability to speak; it also includes our difficulties with listening. Listening has been the “ugly duckling” of conversations until recently […]
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Conversational Illiteracy

  • Posted by AdminCencoem
  • On May 16, 2014
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Conversational Illiteracy Dr. Alberto Beuchot González de la Vega Director of the Center for Business Coaching© Now that the backbone of this column has been laid out in the three previous articles on the different types of illiteracy, it is worth analyzing what I have termed second- and third-order illiteracy, which consist of seven categories of […]
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