Appreciative Inquiry: Practitioners' Guide for Generative Change and Development

Appreciative Inquiry: Practitioners' Guide for Generative Change and Development

"Appreciative Inquiry : Practitioners' Guide to Generative Change and Development" book is the author's humble attempt to introduce the reader to the art, science and craft of ‘appreciative inquiry’. Appreciative Inquiry takes its seeker to a world of ‘exploratory search’ and ‘generativity’ as against ‘empirical research’ and ‘fixing’. This book is intended for the practitioners of positive organization change and development who want to learn the process of AI in an authentic and simple to apply way. the book takes the reader through the genesis and evolution of appreciative inquiry (Chapter 1), its conceptual foundation (Chapter 2), principles and underlying assumptions; and its process and craft (Chapter 3), an account of ‘7i Generative Mandala’ (SIGMA), author's Indianized adaptation of AI process (Chapter 4), ‘Reframing problem as possibility’ (Chapter 5) ... a practical way of creatively engaging with problems to appreciatively reframe them as possibility, ‘Being AI’ - the hallmark of a genuinely and deeply rooted AI professional (Chapter 6) and a guide of a sample AI process (Chapter 7).