Editing Dialogue (section)

===Dialogical leadership===
The German philosopher and classicist [[:de:Karl-Martin Dietz|Karl-Martin Dietz]] emphasises the original meaning of dialogue (from Greek ''dia-logos'', i.e. 'two words'), which goes back to Heraclitus: "The logos [...] answers to the question of the world as a whole and how everything in it is connected. Logos is the one principle at work, that gives order to the manifold in the world."<ref>Karl-Martin Dietz: ''Acting Independently for the Good of the Whole. From Dialogical Leadership to a Dialogical Corporate Culture''. Heidelberg: Menon 2013. p. 10.</ref> For Dietz, dialogue means "a kind of thinking, acting and speaking, which the logos "passes through""<ref>Dietz: Acting Independently for the Good of the Whole. p. 10.</ref> Therefore, talking to each other is merely one part of "dialogue". Acting dialogically means directing someone's attention to another one and to reality at the same time.<ref>Karl-Martin Dietz: Dialog die Kunst der Zusammenarbeit. 4. Auflage. Heidelberg 2014. p. 7.</ref>

Against this background and together with Thomas Kracht, Karl-Martin Dietz developed what he termed "[[:de:Dialogische Führung|dialogical leadership]]" as a form of organisational management.<ref name="Karl-Martin Dietz 2011">Karl-Martin Dietz, Thomas Kracht: Dialogische Führung. Grundlagen - Praxis Fallbeispiel: dm-drogerie markt. 3. Auflage. Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2011.</ref> In several German enterprises and organisations it replaced the traditional human resource management, e.g. in the German [[drugstore]] chain [[dm-drogerie markt]].<ref name="Karl-Martin Dietz 2011"/>

Separately, and earlier to Thomas Kracht and Karl-Martin Dietz, Rens van Loon published multiple works on the concept of dialogical leadership, starting with a chapter in the 2003 book ''The Organization as Story''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yHA8etYwBLwC&q=Dialogical+Leadership+van+Loon&pg=PA109|title = De organisatie als verhaal|year = 2003| publisher=Koninklijke Van Gorcum |isbn = 9789023239468}}</ref>