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Conversations can be critical and destructive, or they can be affirmative and energizing. This book shows how to guarantee your conversations will help people, organizations, and communities flourish. We all know that conversations influence us. But we rarely stop to think about how much impact they have on our well-being and our ability to thrive. This book shows how Appreciative Inquiry (AI)--one of the most widely used new approaches for fostering positive change for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities--can help everyone communicate better and flourish in all areas of their lives. Stavros and Torres spell out 2 practices and 5 principles to create great conversations. Each chapter is built around real-life stories of people using AI practices and principles to transform their conversations and their organizations.

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Cheri Torres is an author, an associate at Innovation Partners International, and a catalyst at NextMove and UniteWNC. They both bring an Appreciative Inquiry approach to their work with small to large organizations across all sectors. Jackie Stavros is a professor at Lawrence Technological University, Senior Appreciative Inquiry Strategist at Flourishing Leadership Institute, a member of the Appreciative Inquiry Council of Practitioners for the Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry and coauthor of several books on Appreciative Inquiry. David L. Cooperrider is professor and chairman of the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. He is the author or coauthor of nine books. His 1987 article ""Appreciative Inquiry Into Organizational Life"" (with Suresh Srivastva) introduced the concept of Appreciative Inquiry. Tiffany Williams is a voice talent and an audiobook narrator.

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