The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook For Leaders of Change
by Cooperrider, David L.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-01-10
Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Summary
One of today's most popular change methods, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) has been used to undertake transformational initiatives in dozens of organizations, ranging from McDonald's to the U.S. Navy to Save the Children. The assumption of AI is simple. Every organization has something that works right -- things that give it life when it is vital, effective, and successful. AI begins by identifying this positive core and connecting organizational visions, plans, and structures to it in ways that heighten energy and inspire action for change.
Author Biography
David L. Cooperrider is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. He is the author or coauthor of nine books. His 1987 article Appreciative Inquiry Into Organizational Life (with Suresh Srivastva) introduced the concept of Appreciative Inquiry.
Jacqueline M. Stavros, EDM is associate professor at the Graduate College of Management at Lawrence Technological University, a principal in the Corporation for Positive Change, and Associate of the Positive Change Corps and Taos Institute.
Diana K. Whitney, Ph.D. is president of Corporation for Positive Change and cofounder of the Taos Institute and a Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School. She is the author of five books on AI, including The Power of Appreciative Inquiry.
Jacqueline M. Stavros, EDM is associate professor at the Graduate College of Management at Lawrence Technological University, a principal in the Corporation for Positive Change, and Associate of the Positive Change Corps and Taos Institute.
Diana K. Whitney, Ph.D. is president of Corporation for Positive Change and cofounder of the Taos Institute and a Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School. She is the author of five books on AI, including The Power of Appreciative Inquiry.
Table of Contents
| List of Tables, Figures, and Exhibits | |
| Essential Elements of Appreciative Inquiry | |
| Theoretical Basis of Appreciative Inquiry | p. 1 |
| Appreciative Inquiry Process: How it Works | p. 31 |
| Introducing, Defining and Planning an Appreciative Inquiry Initiative | p. 49 |
| Application of the 4-D Cycle of Appreciative Inquiry | |
| Discovery: What Gives Life? | p. 103 |
| Dream: What Might Be? | p. 129 |
| Design: How Can It Be? | p. 161 |
| Destiny: What Will Be? | p. 199 |
| Learning Applications and Resources | |
| Sample Interview Guides and Summary Report | p. 223 |
| AI Case Applications | p. 277 |
| AI Worksheets | p. 319 |
| The AI Classics: Selected Articles | p. 351 |
| Appreciative Inquiry Bibliography | p. 413 |
| Glossary of Terms | p. 433 |
| Index | p. 439 |
| Statement of Taos Institute | p. 447 |
| Taos Institute Publications | p. 448 |
| Statement of Appreciative Inquiry Consulting | p. 451 |
| Positive Organizational Scholarship | p. 450 |
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