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Integrity is about the whole world—thinking globally and acting
locally. Appreciative Leadership, wherever it is and whatever its pur-
pose, holds a broad view. It is mindful of long- and short-term forces;
global and local forces; and human, ecological, technical, and fi nan-

cial forces. The path of integrity includes practices to bring competing,
confl icting, and/or contradicting forces into awareness and harmony
through inquiry, dialogue, and collective refl ection.
Appreciative Leadership is life centric, holding all living beings in
positive regard. It establishes priorities and engages with others to design
and build social habits, processes, and institutions that are life affi rming
and sustainable. It uses resources—communication, money, technology,
education, and social networks—to further the well-being of the whole.

For example, the Business as an Agent of World Benefit (BAWB) ini-
tiative at Case Western Reserve University serves as a forum for online
and face-to-face information sharing and learning among members of
organizations dedicated to global sustainability. It highlights the courage,
creativity, and collaboration needed to design organizations and com-
munities today to ensure the well-being of tomorrow.
Appreciative Leadership employs holistic approaches involving
mind, body, emotions, and spirit to engage diverse groups of people,
to support the authentic expression of human potential, and to fos-
ter the design of life-affirming products, services, and organizations.

Intuition, silence, appreciative check-ins, training in emotional intel-
ligence, sabbaticals, slow meetings, meditation, improbable pairs, and
ceremonies are some of the many practices available to create and
nurture a life-giving workplace.
Wholeness is also about holy—the sacred life force that moves
through and around us all. Joseph Jaworski, CEO of the American
Leadership Forum has said:

All human beings are part of that unbroken whole which is
continually unfolding from the implicate and making itself
manifest in our explicate world. One of the most important
roles we can play individually and collectively is to create an
opening, or to “listen” to the implicate order unfolding, and