Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change
Written by David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney
Narrated by Don Sobczak
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About this audiobook
This book is a concise introduction to Appreciative Inquiry. 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. It has been specifically designed to be accessible to a wide audience so that it can be handed out in organizations where AI is either being contemplated or being implemented.
Written by two of the key figures in the development of Appreciative Inquiry, this is the most authoritative guide available to a change method that systematically taps the potential of human beings to make themselves, their organizations, and their communities more adaptive and more effective.
David Cooperrider
David L. Cooperrider is a distinguished university professor at Case Western Reserve University and holds two chaired professorships there. He is the founder and faculty director of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit and is the honorary chairman of Champlain College's David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry. He has served as an advisor to prominent individuals like Bill Clinton, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan, and Jimmy Carter and companies such as Johnson&Johnson, Keurig Green Mountain Coffee, Apple, Verizon, McKinsey, the US Navy, and the UN Global Compact.
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Reviews for Appreciative Inquiry
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I appreciated this!
“Appreciative Inquiry” is related - and perhaps a source - of many of the community building & facilitation approaches I’ve gravitated toward and found most productive. (I’d include Solutions Focused & maybe Open Space facilitation, ABCD and Strategic Doing in that space.)
I feel this relatively short piece gave a solid introduction to the approach, including its principles and good, practical examples to reinforce its value. As a reintroduction for me, it inspired me to explore the approach further.