Innovation-Inspired Change – David Cooperrider. David L. Cooperrider and Lindsey N. Godwin August 10th, 2010 “Fields change. And the field of organization development (OD) is changing more than most.” (see Cooperrider et al, 2005; Bushe and Marshak, 2009). Part of OD’s change is being fueled by exciting breakthroughs in our theories of leadership –what has been called “the strengths revolution in management.” And the third wave is the mounting new database of human science research in fields of positive organizational scholarship and positive psychology. As we shall see, building the new is a fundamentally different task than fixing the old. In this article we present what we think is the field of IPOD: we show where it came from, explore major research informing IPOD’s positive change theory, illustrate strengths-based methodologies from the human group to organizations and society, and demonstrate how innovation-inspired Positive OD often makes more sense than the more classical Diagnostic OD.
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