Chapter 50. Appreciative Inquiry: Unraveling the Mystery of Accentuating the Positive
Darlene M. Van Tiem, Julie Lewis
It is not difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect. | ||
| --Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905) | ||
Appreciative inquiry (AI), not unlike Holmes's methods of deduction, offers a different perspective of viewing and promoting organizational buy-in for purposed and needed organizational change. The instinct over many years ...
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