Appreciative Intelligence: Seeing the Mighty Oak in the Acorn

by Tojo Thatchenkery, Carol Metzker, David L. Cooperrider (Foreword)

Appreciative Intelligence provides a new answer to what enables successful people to dream up their extraordinary and innovative ideas; why employees, partners, colleagues, investors, and other stakeholders join them on the path to their goals, and how they achieve these goals despite obstacles and challenges. It is not simple optimism. People with appreciative intelligence are realistic and action oriented—they have the ability not just to identify positive potential, but to devise a course of action to take advantage of it.

Drawing on their own original research and recent discoveries in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, Thatchenkery and Metzker outline the evidence for appreciative intelligence, detail its specific characteristics, and show how you can develop this skill and use it in your own life and work. They show how the most successful leaders are able to spread appreciative intelligence throughout an organization, and they offer tools and exercises you can use to increase your own level of appreciative intelligence and so become more creative, resilient, successful, and personally fulfilled.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Maxim Oana]

excelent

[Sherry]

Author's definition: the ability to perceive the positive inherent generative potential within the present. It has 3 components: reframing, appreciating the positive and seeing how the future unfolds from the present and those who use theirs they demonstrate "persistence, conviction that one's actions matter, tolerance for uncertainty and irrepressible resilience."

[Yanuar Rohim]

Pendekatan yg menarik untuk mengelola sumber daya manusia dlm suatu organisasi.

[Devi]

Interesting but nothing very insightful.

[Vineeth]

Thought provoking!