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Appreciative Inquiry: Generating Questions of Change

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is increasingly recognized as a powerful tool in organizational change but its popularity is creating a few problems. Its positive approach to handling change projects has been potentially over-emphasized, leading to a vulnerability to being labeled as a fad and irrelevant to the often harsh realities of organizational life, according to […]

The Hard Graft of Change: Why some ideas don’t connect

A quick glance in the business section at the local book shop and you would think that stories of transformation are the norm. There is no shortage of heroic leaders with guidelines for success to turn your backward-looking Jurassic organization into a top-flight enterprise. An increasingly common approach to organizational transformation is “grafting” […]

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