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<p><P>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 scales? easily engaging hundreds or sometimes thousands of people, and often, in a matter of weeks or days, to leverage the positive core of the organization. <P>The authors reveal how using the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) process can help you discover and tap rich, inspiring high point accounts of personal or collective capacity and link this positive core to any change agenda. Once you have determined what is really working, transformations never thought possible are rapidly and democratically mobilized. <P>This innovative process can be an effective way to work with organizations as organi

Author

Jane Magruder Watkins, Bernard J. Mohr

Publisher

Pfeiffer; Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780787951795

Subjects

Management, Economics, Business

Updated

2026-03-24