Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: The First in a Series of AI Workbooks for Leaders of Change - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1576752690 ISBN 13: 9781576752692

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

""Appreciative Inquiry Handbook explains in-depth what AI is and how it works, and includes stories of AI interventions and classic articles, sample project plans, interview guidelines, participant worksheets, a list of resources, a glossary of terms, and more.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook is the first practical, hands on workbook for implementing AI. Rather than a textbook, The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook is an actual user manual for those who want to implement AI. The book contains AI topic choices, interview guides, reports, cases, overheads, participant handouts, course outlines, detailed description of the 4-D Cycle (Discovery, Dream, Design, Destiny), customizable training workshops, and a glossary of terms.

About the Author:

David L. Cooperrider is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. He is the author or coauthor of nine books. His 1987 article Appreciative Inquiry Into Organizational Life (with Suresh Srivastva) introduced the concept of Appreciative Inquiry.
Jacqueline M. Stavros, EDM is associate professor at the Graduate College of Management at Lawrence Technological University, a principal in the Corporation for Positive Change, and Associate of the Positive Change Corps and Taos Institute.
Diana K. Whitney, Ph.D. is president of Corporation for Positive Change and cofounder of the Taos Institute and a Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School. She is the author of five books on AI, including The Power of Appreciative Inquiry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1576752690
• ISBN 13: 9781576752692
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 430
• Editor: Whitney Diana, Stavros Jacqueline M, Cooperrider David L