David L. Cooperrider & Jacqueline M. Stavros 
The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook [EPUB ebook] 
For Leaders of Change

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of one of the most popular change methods in the world, Cooperrider et al. track the recent changes in the field and explain how AI can contribute to sustainability and the triple bottom line.


One of today’s most popular change methods, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) has been used to undertake transformational initiatives in dozens of organizations, ranging from Mc Donalds to the U.S. Navy to Save the Children.


The assumption of AI is simple. Every organization has things that work 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.


This book presents all of the concepts, examples, and aids necessary to engage groups of all sizes in Appreciative Inquiry. 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.


This second edition has been extensively revised, updated, and expanded, including new case studies, new tools and supplemental articles, an expanded bibliography and resource list, and an entirely new chapter on case applications. And throughout, the authors focus on how AI can support an organizational focus on sustainability and the triple bottom line of people, prosperity, and planet.

Tabla de materias

List of Tables, Figures, and Exhibits

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction


Essential Elements of Appreciative Inquiry

Chapter 1: The Theoretical Basis of Appreciative Inquiry

Chapter 2: Appreciative Inquiry Process: How it Works

Chapter 3: Introducing, Defining and Planning an Appreciative Inquiry Initiative


Application of the 4-D Cycle of Appreciative Inquiry

Chapter 4: Discovery:
What Gives Life?

Chapter 5: Dream:
What Might Be?

Chapter 6: Design:
How Can It Be?

Chapter 7: Destiny:
What Will Be?


Learning Applications and Resources

Chapter 8: Sample Interview Guides and Summary Report

Chapter 9: AI Case Applications

Chapter 10: AI Worksheets

Chapter 11: The
AI Classics: Selected Articles

Appreciative Inquiry Bibliography

Glossary of Terms

Index

Statement of Taos Institute

Taos Institute Publications

Statement of Appreciative Inquiry Consulting

Positive Organizational Scholarship

About the Authors

Sobre el autor

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.