CHAPTER 6
Locate Themes That Appear in the Stories (Discover)
“Implied in … scholarly research … is the intriguing suggestion that human systems are largely heliotropic in character, meaning that they exhibit an observable and largely automatic tendency to evolve in the direction of positive anticipatory images of the future. What I will argue is that just as plants of many varieties exhibit a tendency to grow in the direction of sunlight, there is an analogous process going on in all human systems.”
David Cooperrider
AFTER THE INTERVIEWS ARE COMPLETE, this third core process, locating the themes that appear in the stories, encompasses the work of:
- “Mining” the data by looking for themes of what gives life in the organization and
- Expanding ...
