Social Constructionism + The Power of Image = AI in Organization Change
As we know from research on the power of image (Srivastvra, Fry, & Cooperrider, 1990), human beings are strongly impacted by these anticipatory images of the future and in a myriad of ways ranging from physiological responses at the individual level to the creation of new strategies and organization architectures, we collectively create the very future that we anticipate.
This view of how we shape our future gives us a whole new way of understanding the process of change in an organization. Rather than being limited to the traditional view of change as an event that has a beginning, middle, and end (as in, for example, Kurt Lewin’s model of Unfreezing-Changing-Refreezing), ...
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