Diana Whitney’s paper addresses three questions essential to anyone contemplating work at the scale of a strength-based organization: What is organization design? What is life affirming organization design? How do Appreciative Inquiry processes enhance the life affirming qualities of designing organizations? Contrasting traditional (i.e. modern) design assumptions with those of the post-modern paradigm, she reitierates ‘social architecture’ as the necessary focus of designing a strength-based organization. Read More
Source: Appreciative Inquiry: A Process for Designing Life-Affirming Organizations: Published by AI Practitioner (2008): 12-16. Web. November 2008. Diana Whitney.