Organizational Generativity: The Appreciate Inquiry Summit and a Scholarship of Transformation

503 Pages·2013·3.67 MB·English

by  David L. Cooperrider

ORGANIZATIONAL
GENERATIVITY: THE
APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY SUMMIT
AND A SCHOLARSHIP OF
TRANSFORMATION
ADVANCES IN APPRECIATIVE
INQUIRY
Series Editors: Michel Avital and
David L. Cooperrider
Recent Volumes:
Volume1: ConstructiveDiscourseandHumanOrganization
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Volume2: DesigningInformationandOrganizationswithaPositive
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DavidL.Cooperrider
Volume3: PositiveDesignandAppreciativeConstruction
(cid:1)EditedbyTojoThatchenkery,DavidL.Cooperriderand
MichelAvital
ADVANCES IN APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY VOLUME 4
ORGANIZATIONAL
GENERATIVITY: THE
APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY
SUMMIT AND A
SCHOLARSHIP OF
TRANSFORMATION
EDITED BY
DAVID L. COOPERRIDER
CaseWesternReserveUniversity,USA
DANIELLE P. ZANDEE
NyenrodeBusinessUniversiteit,Netherlands
LINDSEY N. GODWIN
ChamplainCollege,USA
MICHEL AVITAL
CopenhagenBusinessSchool,Denmark
BRODIE BOLAND
CaseWesternReserveUniversity,USA
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CONTENTS
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ix
PREFACE xi
FOREWORD xxi
PART 1: GENERATIVE KNOWLEDGE,
GENERATIVE ACTION
A CONTEMPORARY COMMENTARY ON APPRECIATIVE
INQUIRY IN ORGANIZATIONAL LIFE
David L. Cooperrider 3
THE PROCESS OF GENERATIVE INQUIRY
Danielle P. Zandee 69
GENERATIVE PROCESS, GENERATIVE OUTCOME:
THE TRANSFORMATIONAL POTENTIAL OF
APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY
Gervase R. Bushe 89
THE GENERATIVE ARCHETYPES OF IDEA WORK
Michel Avital and Wietske van Osch 115
THE GENERATIVE POTENTIAL OF CYNICAL
CONVERSATIONS
David S. Bright, Edward H. Powley,
Ronald E. Fry and Frank Barrett 135
THE LANGUAGE OF CHANGE: GENERATIVITY
IN DIALOGICAL PROCESSES
Rombout van den Nieuwenhof 159
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TRANSCENDING THE POLARITY OF
LIGHT AND SHADOW IN APPRECIATIVE
INQUIRY: AN APPRECIATIVE EXPLORATION
OF PRACTICE
Pamela C. Johnson 189
PART 2: THE APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY SUMMIT AND
THE GENERATIVE POWER OF WHOLE SYSTEM
CONFIGURATIONS
THE SPARK, THE FLAME, AND THE TORCH:
THE POSITIVE ARC OF SYSTEMIC
STRENGTHS IN THE APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY
DESIGN SUMMIT
David L. Cooperrider 211
THE EXPONENTIAL INQUIRY EFFECT MAGNIFIED:
THE NEW AI SUMMITIN A TECHNOLOGICALLY
CONNECTED WORLD
Lindsey N. Godwin, Pascal Kaplan and Kristin Bodiford 249
STRATEGIC CONVENING FOR GENERATIVE
IMPACT: ENABLING SYSTEMIC CHANGE IN
COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS
David L. Cooperrider, Dave Sherman and Eric Woychik 275
COLLECTIVE ACTUALIZATION: AN
INTERPRETATION OF ROGERS’ NECESSARY
CONDITIONS FOR CHANGE
Tiffany Schroeder 291
ENSURING GENERATIVITY BEYOND THE AI
SUMMIT EVENT: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR
DESIGNING AN AI SUMMIT AND ADVANCING
POST-SUMMIT MOMENTUM
Molly McGuigan and C. J. Murphy 311
Contents vii
PART 3: NURTURING THE FUTURE THROUGH
GENERATIVE DYNAMICS
EXPLORING TRANSFORMATIVE INNOVATION
THROUGH A WORLD INQUIRY
David S. Bright, Ronald E. Fry and
David L. Cooperrider 341
THE GENERATIVE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION
Bonnie A. Richley and David L. Cooperrider 361
GENERATIVE MOBILIZATION: APPRECIATIVE
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Brodie Boland 377
THE EVOLUTION OF APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY:
A NOVEL APPROACH IN THE MAKING
Ilma Barros-Pose 391
APPRECIATIVE INTELLIGENCE AND
GENERATIVITY: A CASE STUDY OF ROCKY FLATS
NUCLEAR WEAPONS FACILITY CLEANUP
Tojo Thatchenkery and Irma Firbida 409
THE MACON MIRACLE: THE MAGIC OF
INTERGENERATIONAL DESIGN FOR THE
FUTURE OF EDUCATION
Cheri Torres, Trevor Warner, Kathy Becker,
Kimberley Seitz, Melissa Robaina and Jim Pulliam 433
INTERGENERATIONAL APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY:
CARING FOR THE FUTURE TOGETHER
Matthew Moehle and Marge Schiller 461

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Michel Avital Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Frank Barrett Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Ilma Barros-Pose Fowler Center for Sustainable Value,
USA
Kathy Becker Center for Appreciative Inquiry, USA
Kristin Bodiford Community Strengths, USA
Brodie Boland New America Foundation, Canada
David S. Bright Wright State University, USA
Gervase R. Bushe Simon Fraser University, Canada
David L. Cooperrider Case Western Reserve University, USA
Irma Firbida George Mason University, USA
Ronald E. Fry Case Western Reserve University, USA
Kenneth J. Gergen Swarthmore College, USA
Lindsey N. Godwin Champlain College, USA
Pamela C. Johnson Johnson-Haefling Foundation, USA
Pascal Kaplan iCohere, USA
Molly McGuigan Learning Link LLC, USA
Matthew Moehle Positive Change Core, USA
C. J. Murphy Spark 5 Consulting, USA
Edward H. Powley Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Jim Pulliam Center for Appreciative Inquiry, USA
Bonnie A. Richley Case Western Reserve University, USA
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