How was 2008 for you? For me, 2008 was a great year! How did I know it was a great year? It was easy. Each year my wife Barb and I go to a coffee shop at the end of the year and identify everything for which we are thankful. We make a list. As [...]
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Over a half century ago, Abraham Maslow asked a startling question: What makes good people good? Maslow had the wisdom and courage to move inquiry into a new realm. In a sense, appreciative inquiry follows that line of inquiry when it asks, what makes good organizations good. Maslow’s search was into the intrinsic nature of [...]
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Over the past few months I blogged about appreciative inquiry and difference makers. In many ways, the two are inseparable. One cannot practice appreciative inquiry without being a difference maker. And, a difference maker intuitively practices appreciative inquiry even if the difference maker follows a different methodology.
My family tradition has been one of celebrating Christmas. [...]
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A remarkable fact of life, age makes no difference to a difference maker. Difference makers come in all sizes, shapes, gender, races, ethnic backgrounds, countries, and conditions. A difference maker refuses to take no for an answer. A difference maker refuses to settle for second best. A difference maker understands that tomorrow can be better [...]
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One never knows when our context and its elements ask us to be a difference-maker. It is as Viktor Frankl stated, “it is not what we ask of life, but what life asks of us.” Frankl’s words run counter to much of the prevailing thought in contemporary culture where the individual and the individual’s needs [...]
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A person can tell if he or she is a difference maker through reflection the benefit his/her actions brought to others. Are you a difference maker?
I briefly build a definition of a difference maker by describing actions not attributed to difference makers. Then, I briefly describe a difference maker through an appreciative inquiry lens.
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Nearly 75 years ago Eleanor Roosevelt said, “We are entering a period when there are vast possibilities for the creation of a new way of living. It only requires sufficient imagination and sufficient actual knowledge on the part of all those who are considering this reorganization of government to bring into the government picture today [...]
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