TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watkins,Jane Magruder
AU  - Mohr,Bernard J.
AU  - Kelly,Ralph
TI  - Appreciative inquiry: change at the speed of imagination 
T2  - Practicing organization development series
SN  - 9781118015100
AV  - HD58.8 .W388 2011eb
U1  - 658.4/06658.4063 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - San Francisco, CA
PB  - Pfeiffer
KW  - Organizational change
KW  - Appreciative inquiry
KW  - Business
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Structural Adjustment
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300) and index; 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
N2  - "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."--Provided by publisher
UR  - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118256060
ER  -