The Focus Book Series is designed to provide reader-friendly, cutting edge, low cost resources to change agents and those whom they serve. This series offers insights, practices and developments in social construction. We have the following books in this series:

1. The Appreciative Organization
   Revised edition. by Harlene Anderson, David Cooperrider, Ken and Mary Gergen, Sheila McNamee, Jane Magruder Watkins and Diana Whitney
2. Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach to Building Cooperative Capacity
   by Frank J. Barrett and Ronald E. Fry
3. Dynamic Relationships: Unleashing the Power of Appreciative Inquiry in Daily Living
   by Jacqueline M. Stavros & Cheri B. Torres; foreward by David Cooperrider
4. Social Construction: Entering the Dialogue
   by Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary Gergen
5. Appreciative Sharing of Knowledge: Leveraging Knowledge Management for Strategic Change
   by Tojo Thatchenkerry
6. Appreciative Leaders: In the Eye of the Beholder
   edited by Marge Schiller, Bea Mah Holland, and Deanna Riley
7. Experience AI: A Practitioner's Guide to Integrating Appreciative Inquiry and Experiential Learning
   by Miriam Ricketts and Jim Willis of Executive Edge, Inc.

The Appreciative Organization

by Harlene Anderson, David Cooperrider, Ken and Mary Gergen, Sheila McNamee,
Jane Magruder Watkins and Diana Whitney
Taos Institute Publications, 2008 Revised edition

The Appreciative Organization is based on the authors' diverse experiences in organizational life.  The appreciative construction of meaning is essential to the efficacy of an organization and the fulfillment of its participants. In clear and direct language, the volume treats the challenges of decision making, leadership, group functioning, personnel evaluation, and the relationship of the organization to its context.

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Price: $14.95 plus shipping and handling (volume discounts at Shopping Cart)
Paperback, 95 pages

ISBN:
13-digit: 9780971231276

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Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach to Building Cooperative Capacity

by Frank J. Barrett and Ronald E. Fry
Taos Institute Publications, 2005

This book provides a concise introduction to and overview of the growing discipline and practice of Appreciative Inquiry (AI). If you are intrigued by the prospect of mobilizing rapid, positive change with multiple stakeholders in a human system that is important to you, this book is for you.

Price: $19.95 plus shipping and handling
Paperback, 128 pages

ISBN:
10-digit: 0-7880-2163-X
13-digit: 978-0-7880-2163-3

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Dynamic Relationships: Unleashing the Power of Appreciative Inquiry in Daily Living

by Jacqueline M. Stavros & Cheri B. Torres; foreward by David Cooperrider
Taos Institute Publications, 2005

This book, Dynamic Relationships, invites us to step into the appreciative paradigm where the principles governing our actions and relationships offer a means for increased value and meaning in our lives and our communities of work and play.

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Price: $18.95 plus shipping and handling
Paperback, 171 pages

ISBN:
10-digit: 0-9714416-6-9
13-digit: 978-0-9714416-6-8

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Social Construction: Entering the Dialogue

by Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary Gergen
Taos Institute Publications, 2004

Ken and Mary Gergen present an account of social constructionist thought that will enable students, colleagues and practitioners - as well as those who are simply curious - to gain a basic understanding and appreciation of the drama of constructionist ideas in action - in organizations, psychotherapy, education, conflict resolution, social research, and everyday life.

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Price: $16.00 plus shipping and handling (volume discounts at Shopping Cart)
Paperback, 100 pages

ISBN:
10-digit: 0-7880-2127-3
13-digit: 979-0-7880-2127-4

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Appreciative Sharing of Knowledge:
Leveraging Knowledge Management for Strategic Change

by Tojo Thatchenkery
Taos Institute Publications, 2004

In this contribution to change management, Tojo Thatchenkery describes a brand new methodology called Appreciate Sharing of Knowledge [ASK] and provides a step-by-step tool kit for anyone interested in knowledge management.

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Price: $19.95 plus shipping and handling (volume discounts at Shopping Cart)
Paperback, 124 pages

ISBN:
10-digit: 0-7880-21-37-0
13-digit: 979-0-7880-2137-3

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Appreciative Leaders: In the Eye of the Beholder

Edited by Marge Schiller, Bea Mah Holland, and Deanna Riley
Taos Institute Publications, 2001

This 200-page volume presents a model of Appreciative Leadership based on twenty-eight interviews, fifteen of which are included in the book. This small but comprehensive sample reveals the outstanding characteristics of appreciative leaders and their predominant behavioral attributes.

Price: $19.95 plus shipping and handling (volume discounts at Shopping Cart)
Paperback, 184 pages

ISBN:
10-digit: 0-9712312-0-6
13-digit: 978-0-9712312-0-7

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Experience AI: A Practitioner's Guide to Integrating Appreciative Inquiry and Experiential Learning

by Miriam Ricketts and Jim Willis of Executive Edge, Inc.
Taos Institute Publications, 2001

This book invites you to share in a conversation around the power and efficacy of embedding experiential learning models, tools and techniques into appreciative inquiry in order to accelerate positive change, motivate teams and individuals, generate buy-in and engage people at all levels.

Price: $14.95 plus shipping and handling (volume discounts at Shopping Cart)
Paperback, 78 pages

ISBN:
10-digit: 0-9712312-2-2
13-digit: 978-0-9712312-2-1