David Cooperrider famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We live in the world our questions create,
-- David Cooperrider

#World
All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.
-- David Cooperrider

#Trying #World #Groups
It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. Itâ€™s the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. Itâ€™s the capacity to see the most creative and improbable opportunities in the marketplace. Itâ€™s the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the possible.
-- David Cooperrider

#Eye #Opportunity #Creative
Business must be a force for good in the world.
-- David Cooperrider

#World #Force
We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change. The future of Organization Development belongs to methods that affirm, compel, and accelerate anticipatory learning involving larger and larger levels of collectivity.
-- David Cooperrider

#Organization #Inquiry #Development
We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.
-- David Cooperrider

#Success #Failure #Discovery

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

David Cooperrider famous quotes

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