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Recommended Books for Creating Constructive Cultures:
- Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination; J. Watkins & B. Mohr; Jossey-Bass. This book is really a "workshop" on AI in a book.
- Appreciative Management and Leadership; S. Srivastva & D. Cooperrider. This is the original theory book on AI. Wonderful chapters by the thought-leaders from the 1989 conference.
- Appreciative Sharing of Knowledge: Leveraging Knowledge Management for Strategic Change; by Tojo Thatchenkery. Dr Thatchenkery is a long-time Appreciative Inquiry researcher. He has applied the principles of Appreciative Inquiry to knowledge management in this book. It is a Taos Institute Publication (www.taosinstitute.net) available through them or Amazon.
- Dialogue; Ellinor, Linda and Gerard, Glenna; John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
- Difficult Conversations; Stone, Doug; Patton, Bruce; and Heen, Sheila; Penguin Books, 1999.
- Encyclopedia of Positive Questions; Whitney, Cooperrider, Trosten-Bloom & Kaplin; Lakeshore Communications. People really like to have questions to refer to while designing an AI and this book can help.
- Good To Great; Collins, Jim; Harper Business, 2001.
- How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation; Kegan, Robert and Lahey, Lisa Laskow; Jossey-Bass, 2002.
- Managing the Unexpected; Weick, Karl and Sutcliffe, Kathleen; Jossey-Bass, 2001.
- Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank; Fuller, Robert; New Society Publishers, 2003.
- The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action; Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Sutton, Robert; Harvard Business School Press, 2000.
- The Power of Appreciative Inquiry; D. Whitney & A. Trosten-Bloom; Berrett-Koehler. A practical and poetic guide to AI. Good ideas on how to customize AI for your situation.
- The Smart-Talk Trap; Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Sutton, Robert; Harvard Business Review (May-June 1999) Reprint 4061.
- The Wisdom of Crowds; Surowiecki, James; Doubleday, 2004.The subtitle of this book says it all, "Why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies and nations." If there was ever a book to show why diversity of thought is so important, this is it.
- Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation; Sutton, Robert; Free Press, 2001. Fast Company: "Fresh Start 2002: Weird Ideas That Work"; A great article for a new way of looking at innovation!
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