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6. Endorsement for James D. Ludema, Diana Whitney, Bernard J.

Mohr, and Thomas J. Griffi n, The Appreciative Inquiry Summit:
A Practitioner’s Guide for Leading Large-Group Change
(San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2003).

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1. We give thanks to Howard Bad Hand, Lakota Holy Man, for the
phrase “the energetically positive.”
2. Adapted with gratitude from a story about Lubavitcher Rebbe
written by Arnie Gotfryd in Chabad Holiday Review, vol. 18
(Albuquerque, NM, 2009).
3. Informal conversation with Tom White, president, GTE,
Telecommunications Division.
4. Lev S. Vygotsky and Alex Kozulin, editors, Th ought and
Language, rev. ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986).
5. Michael White, Maps of Narrative Practice (New York: Norton,
2007), p. 271.
6. Dr. Diana Whitney, president, Corporation for Positive Change,
and Dr. Patricia Arenas, director, Human Change Project of the
Center for Psychological and Sociological Research in Havana,
Cuba, were the first recipient pair.

7. “Cultures of Participation at Work in Cuba and the United
States,” OD Practitioner, vol. 38, no. 4, 2006; and Arenas Bautista,
P. y M. L. Monette, et al., editors, Culturas de Participacion del
Trabajo en Cuba y los Estados Unidos, CIPS (Publicaciones
Acuario Centro Felix Varela, 2007).

8. Book of Proverbs, 29:18.
9. Taken from a painting of the same name depicting a New
England Bell lineman patrolling telephone lines in snowshoes
during the Blizzard of 1888.

10. Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom, The Power of

Appreciative Inquiry, 2nd ed. (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler,
2010), pp. 250–255.