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Luminous Appreciative Alchemy™: Growing Toward What We Study
The single finding underneath appreciative inquiry — that systems grow toward what they study — taken all the way to its consequences.
5 chapters · 32,610 words · Narrated · Still being written
It sounds like an aphorism and it is a mechanism. Attention is not a neutral instrument; a group that spends its meetings on failure becomes more skilled at failure analysis and more oriented to it, and this happens whether or not anybody intends it. The choice of what to study is therefore already an intervention, made before any conclusion is reached.
This volume works out what follows. How to choose the object of inquiry deliberately, how to do it without becoming the organisation that cannot discuss a problem, and how to tell genuine appreciation from the enforced positivity that gives the whole method a bad name.
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How this book was made. Many volumes in this house were written with machine assistance. That is the author's declared working method, not a thing found out later, and the practice is itself a published paper with a DOI — Externalized Cognition: A Developmental Theory of Human–AI Co-Creation. The argument, the judgement and the name on the cover are the author's.