During tough times, companies— and the people in them—tend to give up their souls. Workers put aside who they truly are, what they most…

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Ifirst learned about Appreciative Inquiry in the late 1980s when David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney developed their model, echoing Maslow’s idea that we look…

As a consultant working in the field of systems thinking, I am continually amazed by the ease with which people are able to read…

When the “great blizzard of 2001” in the northeastern United States failed to be in the right place at the right time, with the…