Advance Praise for Appreciative Leadership: 
"A must-read for leaders at all levels who believe that both common sense and business sense require engaging and encouraging rather than mandating or manipulating. It may become my most-recommended book." -- Frank Rogers-Witte, Ph.D., Director, Executive Staff Effectiveness, Hewlett-Packard IPG 
"Building on a simple but powerful idea, Appreciative Leadership offers an approach to organizational transformation applicable to institutions as varied as businesses, universities, church bodies, and health systems. Packed with dozens of stories and suggestions, it offers key insights translated into replicable strategies for action." -- Jane McAuliffe, Ph.D., President, Bryn Mawr College 
"The positive basis of power is illuminated brilliantly in this courageous leadership book. Appreciative Leadership touches the heart of leadership--the kind people most deeply desire--in a way that will change lives, businesses, and every relationship you wish to build." -- David L. Cooperrider, Ph.D., Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Case Western Reserve University 
"Leadership driven by principles and integrity is more important today than ever. Appreciative Leadership shows how to blend principles of collaboration, quality, and service for both long-term achievement and practical daily impact. It provides a model of success for a new generation of leaders." -- R. Edward Howell, Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, University of Virginia Medical Center 
The Positive Approach to Leadership That Brings Out the Best in Everyone Appreciative Inquiry has become one of the most popular new management tools in business today. Its premise is simple yet profound: Instead of focusing on what's wrong in the workplace, learn about and build upon what works. 
Dr. Diana Whitney--a leader in the field of Appreciative Inquiry--and colleagues Amanda Trosten-Bloom and Kae Rader bring the next generation of these ideas forward, with practical and proven tools for leadership. A refreshingly different approach to managing organizations, Appreciative Leadership turns conventional management thinking on its head, demonstrating how to get results with "positive power." All you need are the five "I's" . . .
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INQUIRY: Leading with positively powerful questions. </li>
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ILLUMINATION: Bringing out the best in people and situations. </li>
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INCLUSION: Engaging with others to cocreate the future. </li>
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INSPIRATION: Awakening the creative spirit. </li>
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INTEGRITY: Making choices for the good of the whole.</li>
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This revolutionary approach brings people together, drives companies forward--and takes your leadership skills to a whole new level. 
Appreciative Leadership shows you how to fully engage your team through positive inquiry and open dialogue--so that everyone feels included and valued, inspired and motivated . . . and ready to work together to win. In this user-friendly guide, you'll discover exciting new techniques to open up discussions, exchange ideas, agree on a plan, and follow up on your goals. You'll learn simple tips on how to keep your team on track with a can-do attitude. And you'll find satisfying new ways to be engaged, passionate, and present. 
This book isn't a quick-fix solution to your management problems. It's a full-time, lifelong commitment to your values, your vision, and your connection to others. This is how the best leaders in the world bring out the best in people, their organizations, and themselves. This is Appreciative Leadership.

Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization

Business & Money

Whitney, Diana

Trosten-Bloom, Amanda

Rader, Kae

Business Culture

McGraw=Hill

Written by the originators and leaders of the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) movement itself, this short, practical guide offers an approach to organizational change based on the possibility of a more desirable future, experience with the whole system, and activities that signal ''something different is happening this time.'' That difference systematically taps the potential of human beings to make themselves, their organizations, and their communities more adaptive and more effective. AI, a theory of collaborative change, erases the winner/loser paradigm in favor of coordinated actions and closer relationships that lead to solutions at once simpler and more effective.

Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change (16pt Large Print Edition)

Cooperrider, David

Management & Leadership

ReadHowYouWant

The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change (Revised, Expanded) (16pt Large Print Edition)

"When Laura Michaels tracked her wayward cat to millionaire Royce Burton's estate, she never dreamed her kitty would save her son. For Laura needed a powerful husband to keep custody of her baby - and Royce needed a wife. So the elusive entrepreneur and the down-on-her-luck lady struck a marriage deal - which would remain strictly business, of course. Except the newlyweds soon found their "hands-off" union did not account for the blossoming feelings developing between them. But Royce had no use for sugary sentiment and gooey emotions! Still, the lovely woman's haunting smile triggered an unfamiliar emotion in Royce - a burgeoning love?"

Baby Of Convenience (Stork Express) (Special Edition, 1361)

Romance

Contemporary

Silhouette

The Not-So-Secret Baby by Diana Whitney released on Dec 25, 2000 is available now for purchase.

Not - So - Secret Baby (Stork Express)

After a fire destroys the town of Darby Ridge, boardinghouse owner Janine Taylor, haunted by her tragic past, finds her life forever changed by Quinn Coulliard, an enigmatic stranger who has the power to calm even the most tormented of souls, awakening love and passion within her. Reprint.

The Raven Master

Literature & Fiction

Erotica

The Appreciative Organization The founders of the Taos Institute have pooled their substantial resources to create a vision of a powerful and humanly nourishing form of organization and to share practices for bringing this organization into being. Based on their diverse experiences in organizational life, the authors are unanimous in their view that the appreciative construction of meaning is essential to the efficacy of an organization and the fulfillment of its participants. In clear and direct language, the volume treats the challenges of decision making, leadership, group functioning, personnel evaluation, and the relationship of the organization to its context. Bold ideas are developed, examples described, and multiple suggestions developed for creating the appreciative organization. This volume will be of special significance to consultants and organizational members who wish to see the key elements of appreciative inquiry realized in the everyday working of the organization.

The Appreciative Organization

McNamee, Sheila

Gergen, Mary

Anderson, Harlene

Gergen, Kenneth

Economics

Taos Inst Pubns

Positive Family Dynamics is a wonderful resource for parents and families members wanting to bring out the best in their families! The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to Appreciative Inquiry and its application to families. At the heart of Appreciative Inquiry is the affirmative question. This book contains 56 appreciative questions designed to increase learning, listening and positive dynamics in your family. The questions, stories and activities in this book will help you create relationships within your family which will nurture respect, love, and care. The book's imaginative questions, exercises, and positive spirit creates a simple yet powerful method for helping families discover hidden reserves of strength and inspired opportunities for better living. They also provide powerful tools for helping all families become increasingly more appreciative, collaborative and effective in creating and shaping the futures they desire for themselves and their communities. This book is recommended for all family members -- grandparents, parents, children, and beyond.

Positive Family Dynamics: Appreciative Inquiry Questions to Bring Out the Best in Families

Self-Help

Dole, Dawn Cooperrider

Silbert, Jen Hetzel

Mann, Ada Jo

Relationships

Taos Institute Publications

Poetry. Women's Studies. This is Diana Whitney's debut book of poems—praised as a "saucily entitled and brilliant book...What a debut!" by Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea, a debut with "a tremulous spirit full of...imaginative agitation" adds Major Jackson, and "one of the finest collections I've read in a very long time" says Laura Kasischke. We highly recommend this title for classes and individuals. Narrative, provocative, revealing: perhaps Plath, Sexton, Olds, Frost have combined.

Wanting It

Poetry

Harbor Mountain Press

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

Cooperrider, David L.

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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