Throughout history, humankind has progressed in a somewhat predictable manner. Leaders have been able to leverage the accumulated knowledge residing within the world's organizations to presage tomorrow's demands and make their decisions accordingly. But there are times that defy such extrapolations, and ours seems to be one of them. Faced with a veritable maelstrom of technological innovation and ensuing social upheaval, today's organizational leaders must be risk takers, basing their decisions for the future not on the existing bodies of concrete information, but on an invaluable reserve of organizational wisdom and executive courage. The contributors to this book explore the roles wisdom and courage play in shaping our organizational lives and the implications they hold for the advancement of organizational science and practice. Filled with new thought and compelling insights, Organizational Wisdom and Executive Courage offers executives, educators, and scholars alike the means to broaden their thinking about change and management.

Organizational Wisdom and Executive Courage

Business & Money

Cooperrider, David L.

Srivastva, Suresh

Economics

Jason Aronson, Inc.

The organization development community is on the precipice of a revolution -- a revolution of positive change. Instead of looking at organizations as problems to be solved, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) looks to an organization as a mystery to be solved; instead of identifying problems, AI seeks to appreciate and value. AI is an attempt to generate a collective image of a new and better future by exploring the best of what is and has been. Generally speaking, AI is a strategy for intentional change that looks specifically at positive aspects of a situation. Its methods focus is not on what is wrong, or what needs to change, but rather encourages change agents to look at what works well or what is good in a workplace situation. Once evaluators understand what works well or what is good, then it's about tracking these positives and looking for ways to amplify or fan them in an effort to find avenues to develop more of these positive factors.

Appreciative Inquiry: A New Story of Positive Change for Business and World Benefit (The Appreciative Inquiry Positive Change Series)

Management & Leadership

Pfeiffer

Conversations can be critical and destructive, or they can be generative and productive. This book shows how to guarantee your conversations will help people, organizations, and communities flourish. Conversations are at the core of how we interact. We all know that conversations influence us, but we rarely stop to think about how much impact they have on our well-being and our ability to thrive. This book shows how Appreciative Inquiry (AI)--one of the most widely used new approaches for fostering positive change for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities--can help everyone communicate better and flourish in all areas of their lives. Stavros and Torres spell out 2 practices and 5 principles to create great conversations. Each chapter is built around real-life stories of people using these practices and principles to strengthen relationships and generate possibilities for a future that works for everyone.

Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Stavros, Jacqueline M.

Torres, Cheri

Business Culture

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Shows how executives can introduce, nurture, and develop high human values in organizational life. Explores modes of thought and processes of leadership that stimulate cooperation and enhance creativity in working toward a common organizational future. Proposes a new, positive perspective to guide executive thought and action.

Appreciative Management and Leadership: The Power of Positive Thought and Action in Organizations (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Jossey-Bass

A truly revolutionary method of change management, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) emphasizes inquiry into strengths, rather than focusing exclusively on fixing weaknesses. Written by the originators and leaders of the AI movement, this accessible guide offers a practical introduction to the method, which has been used to significantly enhance customer satisfaction, cost competitiveness, revenues, profits, and employee engagement, as well as organizations' abilities to meet the needs of society. Full of exciting stories that illustrate its many applications and benefits, this is the most authoritative guide to Al. By using this change method to systematically tap human potential, organizations, communities, and individuals become more effective.

Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change

Whitney, Diana

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. The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook contains everything you need to launch any kind of AI initiative. The authors provide background information on what AI is and how it works, and offer sample project plans, designs, agendas, course outlines, interview guidelines, participant worksheets, a list of resources, and more. From abstract principles underlying AI to actual tools used in different settings, from detailed descriptions of AI interventions to practical tips to classic AI articles, this workbook presents all of the introductory concepts, examples, and aids necessary to engage yourself and others in Appreciative Inquiry.

The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: For Leaders of Change

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a model of change management uniquely suited to the values, beliefs, and challenges of organizations today. AI is a process emphasizing, identifying and building on strengths, rather than focusing exclusively on fixing weaknesses as most other change processes do. As the stories in this book illustrate, it results in dramatic improvements in the triple bottom line: people, profits, and planet. AI has been used to significantly enhance customer satisfaction, cost competitiveness, revenues, profits, and employee engagement, retention, and morale, as well as organizations' abilities to meet the needs of society. It provides a basic overview of the process and principles of AI along with exciting stories illustrating how organizations have applied AI and the benefits they have gained as a result.

Berrett-Koehler on Dreamscape Audio

Dreamscape Media

Engaged research and qualitative theory building in the social sciences are among the greatest adventures and significant vocations life can present. The impact of good theory, no matter how tiny or vast, can instantly move across our intimate planet and affect every human and living system in this interconnected, relationally alive, and reverberating universe. Ideas change the world. Ideas can be about life and they can be life-giving in the sense that they can inspire, enliven, and open us to new horizons and new depths. A new idea, especially the idea whose time has come in a prospective and betterment sense, does more than inform: it transforms. We've all experienced it. A single new understanding can change us deeply.This book-emerging from the needs and urging of David's doctoral students and those who care about engaged scholarship-is about the craft of grounded and future-forming theory construction. It's a way of doing research in the human sciences that exists, in William James' contrast, "not as a dull habit but as an acute fever." This book, today used in doctoral research courses and masters programs in organization development, unites the original purpose of Appreciative Inquiry with the domains of grounded theory, generative theory, enlivenment world-views, and the art and science of portraiture. Taken together this volume provides a manifesto and clear framework for prospective theory-building. Prospective theory is:1. Theory inspired by life, and it is designed to apprehend the best in all of life's fullest, most meaningful, and best future possibilities while being grounded in the midst of the extraordinary, the ordinary, as well as the tragic;2. Has the enlivenment and generative capacity to challenge the status quo and open the world to new better possibilities for life and living;3. Articulates a future story of prospective possibility. It involves a proleptic merging of the ideal conditioned in the texture of the actual-e.g., vivid utopias that are right there in front of us-informing our future story for establishing the new and eclipsing the old.

Prospective Theory: Appreciative Inquiry: Toward a Methodology for Understanding and Enhancing Organizational Innovation

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

NRD Publishing

Appreciative Inquiry has touched and inspired the work of thousands who apply its development principles in a wide range of settings including industry, government, spiritual and not-for-profit organizations.The Advances in Appreciative Inquiry series facilitates an emergent dialogue within the social sciences and supports innovative and challenging scholarly work. It is dedicated to the advancement of Appreciative Inquiry as an approach to organizational and human development, and as an interdisciplinary, non-deficit theory of positive change processes in human systems. Guided by the ethos of Appreciative Inquiry, the book series supports an ongoing, distributed inquiry into the true, the good, the better and the possible. It is dedicated to advancing a 'scholarship of the positive' and 'positive scholarship.'This volume aims to push the frontiers and solicit new tools and insights for expanding the state-of-the-art applications of Appreciative Inquiry. It revolves around three fundamental aspects of organizational generativity, namely: generative knowledge and organizational life, collective action and the appreciative inquiry summit, and sustainable inter-generative dynamics.

Organizational Generativity (Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, 4)

International

Emerald Publishing Limited

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Organizational Wisdom and Executive Courage

Appreciative Inquiry: A New Story of Positive Change for Business and World Benefit (The Appreciative Inquiry Positive Change Series)

Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement

Appreciative Management and Leadership: The Power of Positive Thought and Action in Organizations (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change

The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: For Leaders of Change

Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change

Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change

Prospective Theory: Appreciative Inquiry: Toward a Methodology for Understanding and Enhancing Organizational Innovation

Organizational Generativity (Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, 4)