APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY AS A CHANGE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY This essay examines Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as a change management strategy, discusses the strengths and weaknesses of AI and the differences between AI and other change methods with the use of case study examples. ... The 4-D model is one of the many applications of AI - "a cycle of activities that guide members of an organization, group, or community through four stages" (Liebler, Claudia. ... There can be great danger by not addressing the deficiencies in an organization when using this approach, as it could tend to make the org...

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The transformational leader encourages followers to commit to and realize performance results that exceed their own expectations. ... Pastors who were surveyed in two different studies indicated that they felt they were adequately prepared for ministry by their spiritual training but not in their leadership training. ... If, as our text book states, "A 25-year study by the Gallup Organization of 80,000 leaders found that the greatest leaders in the world don't share a common set of characteristics " (p. 174), then how can we determine if a pastor has what it takes to be both a great prea...

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