"What’s different about the appreciative inquiry and the positive model of looking at churches is instead of wringing our hands and fearfully looking at the deficit and saying, "Oh my... read more →
This is an overview of Appreciative Inquiry for the library science profession. Includes 10 ideas for applying AI in a library setting.
This is a summary of a question about the best format for interviews in the Discovery phase of an Appreciative Interview and the responses generated on the AI Listserve in... read more →
Appreciative Inquiry, a concept and approach conceived and described in the work of Dr. David Cooperrider and his colleagues at Case Western Reserve’s school of Organization Behavior, is a worldview,... read more →
Bushe describes five different ways of thinking about how an appreciative inquiry can create change in social systems. These are the social construction of reality, heliotropic hypothesis, the organizational inner... read more →
We propose an alternative view of strategic planning – that its value is as much in the process of creating the plan as in the ultimate content. We suggest that... read more →