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Appreciative Inquiry:

Change at the Speed of Imagination (Google eBook)
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John Wiley & Sons, Mar 21, 2011 - Business & Economics - 300 pages
This book shows how the Appreciative Inquiry process helps OD and HR professionals tap into inspiring “high point” accounts of personal or collective capacity. This new edition puts the focus on how AI really works and adds guidelines on how to apply AI in a variety of organizational situations and for a variety of initiatives such as coaching, leadership development, strategic planning, and teambuilding. It contains tools and other resources to help with immediate use in the workplace and new and updated case studies that show how it really works.
  

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Review: Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination

User Review  - Gary Christensen - Goodreads

Have skimmed this for years. I'll read it all, now. It's really, really good stuff. Almost every page is dog-eared. Read full review

Review: Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination

User Review  - Nova - Goodreads

Very informative reading if you'd like to know what Appreciative Inquiry and its development theory.. but not for its implementation. Nevertheless, I found that the writing style is so much like textbooks, a bit boring for me. Read full review

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About the author (2011)

Jane Magruder Watkins is a past chair of the board of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science and a founding member of Appreciative Inquiry Consulting. She has more than thirty-five years in the field of organization development and has worked with a wide range of private, public, and government organizations, including Avon, GTE, Detroit Edison, SmithKline Beecham, ScottishPower, and more than 200 international organizations in nearly 50 countries.

Bernard J. Mohr is the author of many books and articles on collaborative organization innovation and design. One of the original pioneers in the field of Appreciative Inquiry, Bernard co-founded Innovation Partners International and co-created the NTL Institute Certificate in Appreciative Inquiry.

Ralph Kelly is a co-founder of Appreciative Inquiry Unlimited, a founding member of Appreciative Inquiry Consulting, and an Associate in the Taos Institute. He has over 35 years experience in the field of OD, and has worked with a rich variety of non-profit, faith-centered, government, private and academic organizations in over 40 countries.

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