Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry

A Leadership Journey Through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness

By: Joan McArthur-Blair, Jeanie Cockell

Narrated by: Anna Crowe

Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

As a leader, you have work that is complex, full of ups and downs. Your ability to be resilient - to pick yourself up after setbacks and keep on going no matter the challenges - is critical not only to successful leadership but also to fostering teams, generating collaboration, and igniting your organization. In this breakthrough book, veteran consultants Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell show that Appreciative Inquiry can be an invaluable tool to build that resilience.

Appreciative Inquiry is a time-tested, highly effective, and widely used change method that emphasizes identifying what's working well in a system and building on those strengths. Originating in the 1980s, it's been responsible for dramatic results in every conceivable type of organization.

Using the authors' Appreciative Resilience model, leaders can use AI to increase their ability to weather the storms they'll inevitably face and come out stronger. A profoundly practical guide, this book features first-person accounts from leaders in all kinds of settings and situations describing how they've used AI concepts to increase their resilience, as well as a detailed description of the exercises and practices the authors use in their Appreciative Resilience Workshop.

McArthur-Blair and Cockell believe that the core of resilience is the interplay among despair, hope, and forgiveness. Every leader experiences despair in those moments when there is no clear path forward. Maintaining hope that a better future is possible enables leaders to keep going. And forgiveness, of one's own shortcomings and those of others, helps leaders move from despair to hope. AI's focus on the best of what is and using that to generate the future makes it a particularly powerful aid and ally on this journey.

©2018 Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell (P)2018 Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell

A Journey of hope, despair, and forgiveness : AI

The journey of a leader through hope, despair, and forgiveness using appreciative inquiry to build leadership resilience is a must read for every leader.

Waste of time

Because you say "Appreciative inquiry" or loosely reference notable authors and figures doesn't make this a book about Appreciative Inquiry.

Will not recommend to anyone else, nor revisit, EVER.

The authors feel they're discriminated against because they're lesbians.... Seriously? The authors also expect you not to castigate them for being lesbians, but expect you to tolerate their biases, accept them as they are and take their feminist views without there possibly being some projection going on.... Stop. Get some help because you believe some dangerous stuff. Not your choices which should only matter to you and your partner....The fact that you believe people shouldn't think like that, or that there's something wrong with members of society who aren't agreeable to your choices. Grow up everybody's not going to like you and you're not going to like everybody... Guess what? That's okay and how it goes sometime.

Pros: The authors now can claim author credits.
Cons: Full of stories about people and their challenges with zero application, relatability, self discovery, or guiding towards AI understanding. Believe would've been more understanding watching youtube.

Feel as though another author stole money by delivering what's promise, or that this book was done more for solicitation toward workshops, consulting or something.