Appreciative inquiry : change at the speed of imagination /

• Main Author: Watkins, Jane Magruder
• Other Authors: Mohr, Bernard J., Kelly, Ralph, 1938-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco, CA : Pfeiffer, [2011]
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Series: Practicing organization development series ; 35.
• Subjects: Organizational change.; Appreciative inquiry.; Business.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Structural Adjustment.; Electronic books.

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Table of Contents:

• The case for a new approach to change
• Appreciative inquiry : history, theory, and practice
• Appreciative inquiry as a perspective for organization change
• Choose the positive as the focus of inquiry (define)
• Inquire into stories of what gives life in the system (discover)
• Locate themes that appear in the stories (discover)
• Create shared images for a preferred future (dream)
• Innovate ways to create that preferred future (deliver)
• Valuation.