Conclusion
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is the beginning of an adventure. The urge and call to the positive revolution has been sounded by many people and many organizations, and it will take many more to fully explore the vast vistas that are now appearing on the horizon.
We are infants in understanding appreciative processes of knowing and social construction. Yet we see with increasingly clarity that the world is ready to leap beyond methodologies of deficit-based change and enter a domain that is lifecentric. AI theory states that organizations are centers of human relatedness, first and foremost, and relationships thrive where there is an appreciative eye—when people see the best in one another, share their dreams and ultimate concerns in affirming ...
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