Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization

SEVENThe Path of Integrity: Making Choices for the Good of the Whole

I ‘RATTED’ ON MYSELF

The Appreciative Inquiry advisory team meeting started, as always, with an appreciative check-in. The 35 members, a microcosm of the whole health system—physicians, nurses, medical school faculty, students, hospital administrators, human resources managers, communication specialists, executives, and line staff—were taking turns sharing stories. Each person was answering the question, “What have you seen, heard, or experienced since we last met one month ago that tells you that the organization is indeed changing for the better?”

When it was Mary’s turn, she ...