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David Cooperrider Quotes

We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

David Cooperrider
Success, Failure, Discovery

We live in the world our questions create.

David Cooperrider
World

All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

David Cooperrider
Leadership, Appreciation, Trying

It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. It’s the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. It’s the capacity to see the most creative and improbable opportunities in the marketplace. It’s the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the possible.

David Cooperrider
Eye, Opportunity, Creative

We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change. The future of Organization Development belongs to methods that affirm, compel, and accelerate anticipatory learning involving larger and larger levels of collectivity.

David Cooperrider
Organization, Systems Change, Inquiry

Business must be a force for good in the world.

David Cooperrider
World, Force, American Exceptionalism

Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.

David Cooperrider
Writing, Firsts, Social
Suresh Srivastva, David L. Cooperrider, Case Western Reserve University (1990). “Appreciative management and leadership: the power of positive thought and action in organizations”, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

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