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 (cid:1)EditedbyDavidL.CooperriderandMichelAvital Volume2: DesigningInformationandOrganizationswithaPositive Lens(cid:1)EditedbyMichelAvital,RichardJ.Bolandand 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 United Kingdom (cid:1) North America (cid:1) Japan India (cid:1) Malaysia (cid:1) China EmeraldGroupPublishingLimited HowardHouse,WagonLane,BingleyBD161WA,UK Firstedition2013 Copyrightr2013EmeraldGroupPublishingLimited Reprintsandpermissionservice Contact:[email protected] Nopartofthisbookmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,transmittedin anyformorbyanymeanselectronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingor otherwisewithouteitherthepriorwrittenpermissionofthepublisheroralicence permittingrestrictedcopyingissuedintheUKbyTheCopyrightLicensingAgency andintheUSAbyTheCopyrightClearanceCenter.Anyopinionsexpressedinthe chaptersarethoseoftheauthors.WhilstEmeraldmakeseveryefforttoensurethe qualityandaccuracyofitscontent,Emeraldmakesnorepresentationimpliedor otherwise,astothechapters’suitabilityandapplicationanddisclaimsanywarranties, expressorimplied,totheiruse. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-1-84855-488-7 ISSN:1475-9152(Series) ISOQAR certified Management System, awarded to Emerald for adherence to Environmental standard ISO 14001:2004. Certificate Number 1985 ISO 14001 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 v vi CONTENTS 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 ix
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