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Table of Contents

About the authors

About the contributors

Acknowledgements

PART ONE Understanding conversational approaches to change

01 Organizations as machines, workers as cogs and management as a control process

02 An alternative approach: organizations as living human systems

The organization as living

Organizations as human

Organizations as systems

Belief in the power of appreciation to promote growth

Belief in the power of inquiry

The power of talk to change things

The power of imagination to produce change

The power of positive emotional energy to achieve change

The belief that language is creative

Belief in the place and power of stories in organizational life

03 The development of conversational approaches to organizational change

04 Appreciative Inquiry: how do you do it?

PART TWO Advanced ideas and practice

PART THREE Using conversational approaches in the organization

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