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Article Research Highlights Growing Interest in More Democratic Approach to Corporate Communication. (2008, Feb 8). Talent Management Solutions 2008 (online ed.).

Tool AI for Mergers (Feb 1, 2008)

Article In pursuit of sustainable business. (2006, Oct 24). Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Article BAWB Global Forum - Case Western Reserve University. (2006, Oct). Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Case Study (2004).(2004, Jun 24). United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit. Author.

Tool Roadway Express: Co-Creating our Future - Designing our 94 Now Network (May 10, 2004)

Article Yellow Roadway plans to add shipping terminals. (2004, Jan 9). The Business Journal.

Tool Roadway Express - A webcast on Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage (Dec 2003)

Tool Cap Gemini Ernst & Young/Appreciative Inquiry Video (Nov 20, 2002)

Tool ePositiveChange ® Transformation Fact Sheet and Overview (Jul 21, 2002)

Article (2002, Jan 10). Q & A: Robert Stiller and Green Mountain Coffee (Vol. 30). Vermont Business Magazine.

Tool Texas Insurance– Application Services Transformation (Jun 2001)

Tool AI & Roadway Express (2001)

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Case Study Afonso, E. (2002). Cases de aplicação da metodologia Appreciative Inquiry pela Brother Cast. Sao Paulo, Brazil: Brothercast.

Working Paper Avital, M. (2002). Instrumental Questioning: The Role of Questions in Design and Management. Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University.

Article Babcock, P. (2005, Sep). A Calling for Change. Society for Human Resource Management Vol. 50.

Article Barrett, F. (1995). Creating appreciative learning cultures. Organizational Dynamics Vol. 24. 36-49

Article Barrett, F. J., Cooperrider, D. L. (2001). Generative Metaphor Intervention: A New Approach for Working with Systems Divided by Conflict and Caught in Defensive Perception. Appreciative Inquiry: An Emerging Direction for Organization Development (First Edition ed.).

Case Study Barros, I. O., Cooperrider, D. L. (2001, Aug 14). Appreciative Inquiry Fostering Wholeness in Organizations: A Story of Nutrimental in Brazil. Curitiba, PRBrazil: Nutrimental Industria e Comercio de Alimentos S.A..

Working Paper Belgard, S. (2008). Positive Perspectives: Integrating Appreciative Inquiry into Collaborative [Law] Practice. International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.

Article Blake, R., Carlson, B., McKee, R., Sorenson, P. F., Yaeger, T. F. (2000). Contemporary Issues of Grid International: Sustaining and Extending the Core Values of O.D.. Organization Development Journal (Summer ed.) Vol. 18. 54-61

Article Brittain, J. (1998). Do We Really Mean It?. Lessons From the Field - a book.

Book Brittain, J. (1998). Do we really mean it?. In Hammond, S., Royal, C. (Eds.), Lessons from the field: Applying appreciative inquiry. Plano, TX: Practical Press, Inc.

Article Brown, J., Isaacs, D. (1996). Conversation as a Core Business Process. The Systems Thinker Vol. 7. 1-6

Article Bushe, G. R. (1998). Appreciative inquiry with teams. Organization Development Journal Vol. 16. 41-50

Article Bushe, G. R. (1995). Advances in appreciative inquiry as an organization development intervention. Organization Development Journal Vol. 13. 14-22

Article Bushe, G. R., Coetzer, G. (1995). Appreciative inquiry as a team development intervention: A controlled experiment. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science Vol. 31. 13-30

Stories from the Field 21st Century A.I.(2008)


Tool EZ RED Newsletter (Dec 2004)

Article Clemson, B. A., Lowe, E. A. (1993). Which way to Rome? Choosing a path for change. Engineering Management Journal Vol. 5. 26-40

Book Cobb, N. B. (2002). Project Management Workbook. Blacklick, OH: McGraw-Hill Companies.

Tool The New Business of Doing Business (Jun 1, 2009)

Tool A Fusion of Strengths: A Positive Revolution in Change Leadership (Aug 1, 2004)

Tool David Cooperrider's Key Note Speech Slide Presentation (Jun 11, 2003)

Tool AI at University of St. Thomas and the Minnesota OD Network (Oct 2001)

Tool AI Celebration Notes (Jun 3, 2000)

Tool People Process Focus Groups: EYe on the Transition (May 9, 2000)

Tool Appreciative Inquiry - Workshop Slides (Jul 12, 1998)

Book Cooperrider, D., Srivastva, S. (1990). Appreciative inquiry in organizational life. In Srivastva, S., Cooperrider, D. L. (Eds.), Appreciative management and leadership: The power of positive thought and action in organizations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Inc.

Tool Images and Visions of Business as an Agent of World Benefit (Sep 30, 2001)

Book Cooperrider, D. L., Sorensen, P. F., Yaeger, T. (Eds.). (2001). Appreciative Inquiry: An Emerging Direction for Organization Development. Champaign, IL: Stipes Publishing.

Book Cooperrider, D. L., Sorensen, Jr., P. F., Whitney, D., Yaeger, T. F. (Eds.). (2000). Appreciative inquiry: Rethinking human organization toward a positive theory of change. Champaign, IL: Stipes Publishing.

Article Cooperrider, D. L. (1996). The Child as Agent of Inquiry. Organizational Development Practitioner Vol. 28. 5-11

Book Cooperrider, D. L., Srivastva, S. (1987). Appreciative inquiry in organizational life. In Pasmore, W., Woodman, R. (Eds.), Research in organization change and development (Vol. 1). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Tool Decreased Turnover at Hunter Douglas Window Fashions Division (2002)

Case Study Derksen, M., Osborn, T. (2001, Jul 31). Creating an Organizational Culture of Choice at DTE Energy Services.

Tool Increased Sales at Nutrimental Foods (2001)

Tool Decreased Absenteeism at Nutrimental Foods (1998)

Tool Increased Employee Participation at Hunter Douglas Window Fashions Division (1998)

Case Study Dumitriu, M. (2005, Feb 15). Case WSOM Positive Life & Health Initiative. Cleveland, OH: REI.

Article Egger, T. C., Goldberg, S. (2009, Aug 9). Sustainability summit should help Cleveland work greener (online ed.). Cleveland.com.

Book Elliot, C. (1999). Locating the Energy for Change: An Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry. Winnipeg, Canada: International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Book Eoyang, G., Olson, E. (2001). Facilitiating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.

Tool CGE&Y AI Case Studies (AI Conference Presentation) (Jul 22, 2002)

Tool Creating Workforce Excellence to Achieve Business Goals (Jul 22, 2002)

Tool Example of AI Success Story (Qualification) - International Library Operations (Jul 22, 2002)

Tool Presentation for the AI International Conference (10/01) (Jul 22, 2002)

Tool Workforce Excellence Fact Sheet and Overview (Jul 21, 2002)

Article Fitzgerald, S., Murrell, K., Miller, M. (2003). Appreciative inquiry: Accentuating the positive. Business Strategy Review: London Business School (Spring ed.) Vol. 14. 5-7

Article Friedman, S. (2001, Mar 12). Planning helps families stay in business together. Buffalo Business First: Western New York's Business Newspaper.

Book Fry, R., Barrett, F., Seiling, J., D Whitney, J. (2001). Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Transformation: Reports from the Field. Westport, CT: Quorum Books.

Article Fuller, C., Griffin, T., Ludema, J. (2000). Appreciative Future Search: Involving the Whole system in Positive Organization Change. Organization Development Journal Vol. 18. 29-41

Article Funk, J. (2009, Aug 15). Sustainability summit offers view of a green, prosperous Cleveland (online ed.). The Plain Dealer.

Article Funk, J. (2009, Aug 13). Sustainability summit brainstorms ideas (online ed.). Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Article Funk, J. (2009, Aug 13). Sustainability summit takes creative step forward (online ed.). Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Article Funk, J. (2009, Aug 12). Sustainability summit attempts to bring future into focus. Cleveland Plain Dealer (online ed.).

Article Gandhi, J. L. (2004, Dec 21). New Methodology for Preventing Loss of Valuable "Knowhow" Unveiled. Press.xtvworld.com website.

Article Gilmour, D., Radford, A. (2007). Using OD to Enhance Shareholder Value: Delivering Business Results in BP Castrol Marine. OD Journal (Fall 2007 ed.) Vol. 25. 97-102

Article Gordon, J. (2003, Jan 20). Meet the Freight Fairy; Teamsters and Managers Work Together. Forbes Magazine Vol. 171.

Book Grieger, G. (2001). Appreciative Inquiry. Paderborn, Germany: Active-Books/Junfermann Verlag.

Article Hammonds, K. H. (2001, Jul). Leaders for the Long Haul. Fast Company. 56

Article Herasymowych, M. (1997, May). Tapping into the Power of Learning Part 4A: Appreciating Potential and Possibilities. InfoMine Vol. 4.

Case Study Hinrichs, G., Ludema, J., Morris, D. (2000, Apr). An Appreciative Inquiry Summit (AI Summit) at John Deere. Moline, IL: John Deere.

Article Johnston, C. (2002, May 1). The Best Possible World (Spring ed.) (Vol. 14). CWRU Magazine.

Article Keen, R. (2005, May 5). K.O. Lee Ready to Retool. AberdeenNews.com.

Article Kind, M. (2004, Jan 16). Yellow Roadway will keep area workers, expand with terminals in other towns. The Business Journal, Kansas City.

Article Kinni, T. (2003, Aug 1). Exploit What You Do Best. Harvard Management Update Vol. 8. 6

Article Kroll, L. (2001, Oct 29). Entrepreneur of the Year: Java Man. Forbes.

Article Krouse, P. (2007, Feb 13). Sand company re-creates habitat. The Plain Dealter newspaper (online ed.).

Article Krouse, P. (2006, Oct 25). Global Compact recruits locally. Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Article Krouse, P. (2006, Oct 23). Using business to make the world better. Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Book Laszlo, C. (2008). Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies are Doing Well by Doing Good. Stanford University Press.

Article Lee, S., Shafer, J. (2005, Feb). Building a Values Driven Organization. Organizations and People Vol. 12.

Article LeJeune, M. (1999, Feb). Companies turning to Appreciative Inquiry to ask staff what's right. Boulder County Business Report.

Article Liedman, J. (2002, Jan). HR Pros May Favor Appreciative Inquiry. Human Resource Executive Magazine.

Article Loures, R. (2002, Apr 17). Sustaining Appreciative Change Through Organizational Design. World Business Academy Vol. 16.

Case Study Ludema, J. D., Dinga, L. J. (2001). McDonald's Chicago Region - Back to the Basics. Chicago, IL: McDonalds / Benedictine University.

Case Study Lustig, P. (2003, Jun 6). Discovering Client Value for a High Tech Corporation. Cirencester, United Kingdom: LASA Development UK Ltd..

Case Study Marczak, L. (1998, Sep). Appreciative Inquiry at NutrimentaL: How did it happen?. Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University.

Article Martinetz, C. F. (2002, Sep). Appreciative Inquiry as an Organizational Development Tool. Performance Improvement Vol. 41. 32-37

Case Study McClean, A., George, M. (2001, Aug 16). A Case of New World Wine - In Old World Bottles?. London, Great Britain (UK): McLean & George Ltd.

Article McLean, G. N. (1996). Action research in OD: RIP?. Human Resource Development Quarterly (Spring ed.) Vol. 7. 1-3

Case Study Mohr, B., Watkins, J. M. (2003). AI in Corporate Training Program (e)Valuation. The Synapse Group

Tool Conducting an Evaluation Study of the Discovery Simulation Programme within the Discovery Organisation of ABC Corp Pharmaceuticals (1997)

Article Mohr, B. J., Samuels, N., Wale, C. (2004, Feb). Accelerating Strategy Implementation at BP. AiPractitioner.

Article Mohr, B. J. (2001, Feb). Appreciative Inquiry: Igniting Transformative Action. The Systems Thinker Vol. 12. 5

Article Mohr, B. J., Smith, E. J., Watkins, J. M. (2000). Appreciative inquiry and learning assessment. Journal of the Organization Development Network Vol. 32. 36-52

Article Muscat, M. (1998). The federal quality consulting group: Using the vision story process to rebuild an organization. The Inner Edge Vol. 1. 18-19

Article O'Donnell, P. (2006, Apr 23). Case Sees Social Responsibility as Good Business. Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Article Odell, M. (2005, Oct 8). Impacts Before Interventions. Self-published.

Article Pascarella, P. (1998). Building corporate castles in the air. The Inner Edge Vol. 1. 5-8

Tool 2004 AI Growth Summit Workbook (2004)

Article Payne, M. (2006, Mar 8). Business as change agent. CRAIN'S Cleveland Business on the web (online ed.).

Tool Building the Capacity of the St. Louis OD Community (Jan 16, 2002)

Tool AI Interview Guide for the Center of Human Development- Pepperdine Class Project 2000 (Jun 13, 2000)

Book Piderit, S. K., Fry, R. E., Cooperrider, D. L. (2007). Handbook of transformative cooperation. Stanford University Press.

Article Pullen, Ph.D., C. (2001, Oct). Appreciative Inquiry in Financial Planning and Life. Journal of Financial Planning Vol. 14. 52-54

Tool AI Practitioner Collection CD 1998-2004 (Dec 10, 2005)

Article Radford, A. (1999, Feb). Sandy Mobley’s paper “When Phil Jackson Should Overrule Judge Wapner: Why Coaches are Better than Judges for Healthy Organizations”. AI Practitioner.

Book Reed, J. (2007). Appreciative Inquiry: Research for Change. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Article Ricketts, M., Willis, J. (2004, Feb). Reaching Out--Corporate-Community Partnerships as Organizational Learning Opportunities. Ai Practitioner (Feb 2004 ed.).

Article Ricketts, M. W. (2002, Jun). The Glass is Half Full. AEE Horizons Newsletter (Summer 2002 ed.).

Case Study Robinson, B. (2003, Sep 22). Wall Street Dialogues: Five Years of Conversations that Matter. New York, NY: Trinity Church-Wall Street.

Stories from the Field Writing on the Wall(2001)


Tool Scccessful Transitions: English and Russian (Jan 2003)

Tool A Guide to Appreciative Upward/360 Feedback Conversations (Jan 10, 2002)

Case Study Samuels, N. D., Mohr, B. J., Dinga, L. J. (2000, Jun 21). BP Amoco. San Antonio, TX

Article Sorenson, P. F., Gironda, L. A., Head, T. C., Larsen, H. H. (1996). Global organization development: Lessons from Scandinavia. Organization Development Journal (Winter ed.) Vol. 14. 46-52

Book Srivastva, S., Cooperrider, D. L. (Eds.). (1999). Appreciative management and leadership: The power of positive thought and action in organization (Revised ed.). Euclid, OH: Williams Custom Publishing.

Article Srivastva, S., Bilimoria, D., Cooperrider, D. L., Fry, R. E. (1995). Management and organization learning for positive global change. Management Learning Vol. 26. 37-54

Stories from the Field Creating Union Management Partnerships with AI(2005)


Case Study Studies, I. D. (2001, Mar). From Consultation to Influence. Bethesda, MD: EnCompass LLC.

Article Suchman, A. L., Williamson, P. R., Robbins, D. B., Cronin, J. C. (2002, Feb). Strategic Planning as Partnership Building: Engaging the Voice of the Community. AI Practitioner/Newsletter. 12-14

Book Thatchenkery, T. (2005). Appreciative Sharing of Knowledge (First ed.). Chagrin Falls, OH: Taos Institute Publishing.

Book Torres, C. B. (2001). The Appreciative Facilitator (1 ed.) (Vol. 1). Maryville, TN: MTC Associates, LLC.

Tool Positive Change @ Work: The Appreciative Inquiry Approach to Whole System Change at Hunter Douglas Window Fashion Division (2002)

Case Study Trosten-Bloom, A., Whitney, D. (2001, Aug 16). Creative AI Approaches for Whole-System Culture Change: Hunter Douglas Window Fashions Division. Golden, CO: Corporation for Positive Change.

Tool Able Leadership (Jan 2006)

Article van der Haar, D., Thissen, M. J. (2002, Dec 11). Verandermanagement vernieuwd!?. M@n@gement.

Article Visser, C. (2001, Jun 7). Succesvol verandermanagement door Appreciative Inquiry. M@n@gement.

Tool Five Step AI Development Model (Sep 1, 2000)

Book Voyle, R. J., Voyle, K. M. (2006). Core Elements of the Appreciative Way: An Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry for Work and Daily Living. Hillsboro, OR: Clergy Leadership Institute.

Book Watkins, J. M., Mohr, B. J. (2001). Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.

Article Watkins, J. M., Cooperrider, D. L. (1996). Organizational inquiry model for global social change organizations. Organization Development Journal Vol. 14. 97-112

Article Webb, L. D., Harris, D. (2001, Apr 2). Dubuque Reforms Administration of Voucher Program With Help of Owners, Tenants, Local Groups. Housing and Development Reporter Vol. 28. 3

Case Study Webb, L. D. (2000, May). AI in a Public Policy Change Process. Bethesda, MD: EnCompass LLC.

Article Webb, L. D., Cooperman, S. (1999, Jan). Improve Your Organization's Results by Getting Inside the Head and Heart of Your Customers. Julien's Journal.

Article White, T. W. (1996). Working in interesting times. Vital Speeches of the Day Vol. LXII. 472-474

Book Whitney, D., Trosten-Bloom, A., Cherney, J., Fry, R. (2004). Appreciative Team Building: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best in Your Team. iUniverse.

Tool Corporation XYZ Vision 2020 Interview Guide (Jul 23, 2001)

Article Whitney, D. (1998). Let's change the subject and change our organization: An appreciative inquiry approach to organization change. Career Development International, UK, Special Edition. 314-319

Case Study Whitney, D., Cooperrider, D., Garrison, M., Moore, J., Dinga, L. (1996, Jan 1). Appreciative Inquiry and Culture Change at GTE / Verizon. GTE / Verizon

Article Whitney, D. (1996). Postmodern principles and practices for large scale organization change and global cooperation.. Organization Development Journal (Winter ed.) Vol. 14. 53-69

Article Zemke, R. (1999, Jun 1). Don't Fix That Company. Training Magazine (0095-5892 ed.) Vol. 36. 26

Article Zhexembayeva, N. (2006, Aug). Strategic Thinking: Becoming Sustainable - Tools and Resources for Successful Organizational Transformation. Green Biz (Online ed.).

Article Zolno, S. (2000, Aug 19). Appreciative Introductions: Building Teams. The 2000 Annual, Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer (Consulting ed.) Vol. 2. 85-88



 
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