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Appreciative Inquiry-a book in the Practicing
OD Series-is for leaders and organizational consultants who
are ready to abandon the familiar tyranny of complex change
programs. Recognizing that human systems are constructions
of the human imagination and therefore capable of change at
the speed of imagination, the Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
process frees organizations from the restrictive orthodoxy
of "deficit based change" and allows them the freedom to
mobilize strategic change and focus on the visible and tacit
strengths of an organization. AI is capable of engaging
whole systems at amazing scaleseasily engaging hundreds or
sometimes thousands of people, often in a matter of weeks or
days, to leverage the positive core of the organization.
Table of Contents:
The Case for a New Approach to Change.
Appreciative Inquiry: History, Theory, and Research.
Appreciative Inquiry As a Process.
Choose the
Positive As the Focus of Inquiry.
Inquire
into Stories of Life-Giving Forces.
Locate
Themes That Appear in the Stories.
Create
Shared Images for a Preferred Future.
Find
Innovative Ways to Create that Preferred Future.
Evaluation
Reviews:
—Peter Sorenson, professor and
director of the Ph.D. program in organization
development and master of science program in management
and organization behavior, Benedictine University
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"This
book is a gift to organization development
practitioners. It takes us forward both professionally
and personally. It challenges us to shift our
perspectives, and deepens our understanding of
organizations as organic systems. The book provides
practical guidance—and encouragement—to creating
sustainable change in large complex systems. Jane
Watkins and Bernard Mohr are generous in sharing their
wisdom and experience. In doing so they place on us
tremendous responsibility for the fate of change efforts
through our choice of approach to inquiry."
—Cynthia
Haddock, senior change advisor, The World Bank Group
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