ASAE Launches a Social Responsibility Movement
Author: Dave Kovaleski
Assosiation Meetings
Date: 05/05/2008
Edition: online
The summit was moderated by David Cooperrider, director at the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, which is part of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, using “appreciative inquiry”—a concept that he developed. Cooperrider’s process is designed to engage large groups of people in developing strategies and making decisions for the organization—sort of like a massive brainstorming session. He does it by asking questions that uncover the strengths of an organization. “The questions we ask determine what we find,” says Cooperrider. “I began to realize that the whole field had defined change as an improvement game, that the system is broken, it needs to diagnosed and fixed.
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