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Title: The Discovery and Design of Positive Institutions Through Appreciative Inquiry ron fry


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The Discovery and Design of
Positive InstitutionsThrough Appreciative
Inquiry ron fry david cooperrider


  • For Those Interested in more resources
    learning opportunities please go to
  • 1. Appreciative Inquiry Certificate Program
  • http//weatherhead.case.edu/executive-education/c
    ertificates/appreciative-inquiry/
  • 6. Next (2009) World Appreciative Inquiry
    Conference in Nepal www.2009worldaiconference.or
    g
  • 7. Taos Institute www.taosinstitute.net/
  • 8. For hundreds of free tools, articles, power
    point slides see the Appreciative Inquiry
    Commons
  • http//appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/ or email
    for in-house speaking requests
    AICommons_at_case.edu

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What is AI?
  • A rigorous and collaborative search for the
    systems greatest strengths, in order to
  • Imagine bolder and more attractive
    Possibilities, so that
  • Stakeholders can collaboratively design
    ways to move toward those images, thus
  • enabling
  • Self-organized bezieling, cooperative change
    efforts

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KEY IDEAS ABOUT CHANGE IN AI - Words create
Worlds - Questions are Fateful they begin the
Change - You can ask any Question Anywhere -
Fundamental Change comes from Changing the
Future Image - Positive Images ? Positive
Changes - Narratives create Enduring Connections
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Appreciative Inquiry
Involves a Shift
  • No problem can be solved from the same level of
    consciousness that created it. We must learn to
    see the world anew.
  • There are only two ways to live your life. One
    is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is
    as though everything is a miracle.
  • Albert Einstein

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Deficit Theory of Change
  • most schools, companies, families and
    organizations function on an unwritten rule
  • Lets fix whats wrong and let the strengths
    take care of themselves
  • --Gallop Poll
  • Identify problem
  • Conduct root cause analysis
  • Brainstorm and analyze possibilities
  • Action plans

Metaphor Organizations are problems to be solved
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The Current TRAJECTORY of AI
Strength Elevating Relating Strength Configuring
and Concentration Organizing Strength Extending
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  • Positive ProfusionThree Observable Phases
  • Elevate-and-Extend
  • Broaden-And-Build
  • Establish-and-Eclipse

Activation of Energy Establish and Eclipse
Extension of Relatedness Universal Capacity
High
Pro-Fusion of Strengths Broaden and Build
Elevation and Extension of Inquiry
Lo w
Activation of Inquiry into What Gives
Life? Appreciable World
Initiating
Advancing
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Pro-fusion What happens when Strengths combine
with Strengths? Hope with Hope?
  • 1. Elevate-and-Extend
  • The Elevation of Inquiry into the
  • appreciable world
  • The Extension of Relatedness
  • Awe, Gratitude and Generosity
  • 2. Broaden-And-Build
  • Broadening of Minds
  • Merging and Magnification of Resources
  • Confidence and Positive Synchronization
  • 3. Establish-and-Eclipse
  • From Generosity to Generativity
  • Vital Engagement Courage, Significance, and
    Creativity
  • Upward spiral of doing undergoing

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Business Impactand Research Results
  • BUSINESS RESULTS
  • Navy 2 Billion Winning the Battle for People
  • Trucking Company Stock Follows Increasing
    Engagement Scores 14 to 41
  • Testimony House Armed Services Committee 2004
  • WHY SO EASY?
  • Vigor, Passion, System Engagement, Dedication
  • Pipeline of Customer-focused Innovation/Speed
  • 38 Higher Productivity (Glavas 2009)

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Fairmount Started with Appreciative Inquiry in
1990 With a Focus on Empowerment 40 CAGR Past
Four Years
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Arcelor-Mittal Steel
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3 Circles of The Strengths Revolution
Boeing Fairmount HP Interface Dealer
Tire Toyota GMCR UN Navy Wal-Mart United
Way Green City on Blue Lake, etc.
Ai
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Hot off the Press Research on Positive
Institutions
Glavas (2009) Case Western Reserve Univ.
Ante.S.Glavas.1_at_nd.edu
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What Matters Most in Ai?Our Inquiry Must Be the
Change We Want to See in the World!
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