Next Level Blog

JANUARY 19, 2021

That’s a longer-term problem because people need connection to be at their best. Prior to the pandemic, I regularly saw organizations where the norm was for leaders to go long on reality and short on hope. The way we’ve been working for the past year leads us to default to just getting the work done in a very transactional manner.

Team 246

Team Cooperrider Banking Short-term 246

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

“We live in the world our questions create,” says David Cooperrider, a professor at Case Western Reserve University and a pioneer of “Appreciative Inquiry,” which holds that questions focusing on strengths and using positive language are far more useful to organizations than questions with a negative focus. What need is it satisfying?

Cooperrider 22

Cooperrider Consultative Short-term Proposal 22

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

“We live in the world our questions create,” says David Cooperrider, a professor at Case Western Reserve University and a pioneer of “Appreciative Inquiry,” which holds that questions focusing on strengths and using positive language are far more useful to organizations than questions with a negative focus. What need is it satisfying?

Cooperrider 14

Cooperrider Consultative Short-term Proposal 14