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Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination
Author: Jane Magruder Watkins , Bernard J Mohr

Publisher: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer
San Francisco, CA United States
Copyright 2001
ISBN: 0-7879-5179-X

Annotation: Appreciative Inquiry - a book in the Practicing Organization Development 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 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.

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