Title: The Discovery and Design of Positive Institutions Through Appreciative Inquiry ron fry
1The Discovery and Design of
Positive InstitutionsThrough Appreciative
Inquiry ron fry david cooperrider
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2What 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
3KEY 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
4Appreciative 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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5Deficit 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
6The Current TRAJECTORY of AI
Strength Elevating Relating Strength Configuring
and Concentration Organizing Strength Extending
7- 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
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Activation of Inquiry into What Gives
Life? Appreciable World
Initiating
Advancing
8Pro-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
9Business 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)
10Fairmount Started with Appreciative Inquiry in
1990 With a Focus on Empowerment 40 CAGR Past
Four Years
11Arcelor-Mittal Steel
123 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.
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13Hot off the Press Research on Positive
Institutions
Glavas (2009) Case Western Reserve Univ.
Ante.S.Glavas.1_at_nd.edu
14What Matters Most in Ai?Our Inquiry Must Be the
Change We Want to See in the World!