[Ailist] Re: An article by David Cooperrider on BAWB: Aw is What Moves Us Forward

[Mo McKenna]

Hi
every now and again I go searching on the AI commons .. and today I came across an article that David Cooperrider wrote in 2007 on Business as an Agent of World Benefit:  "Awe is What Moves Us Forward".   

The last paragraph sums it up for me:
"Suddenly the image we have been asking for - for the world inquiry into business as an agent of world benefit --is right here.  The metpahor for the kind of global learning we need flashes across the minds eye:  it is the image of Indra's Net.  It's about the ancient Buddhist story of the universe describing the cosmic web of inter-relatedness extending infinitely in all directions.  Every tiny intersection of the vast interwining net is set with a gistenign jewel, in which all parts of the whole are billiantly reflected.  And in our image it also involves a 'learing' dynamic, spontaneous and instantly locat and whole, compelling each jewel to transform in and through a reverberating amplification of 'strengths upon strengths' of all the other jewels..supraliminal (faster than the speed of light) there is a remarkable mirroring and merging, a connected and coherent whoe, sparking and glistening - and it encirlces our blue planet with the purest appreciative intelligence we are capable of extending.

It is an image of a World Inquiry that is coming alive right now."
http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/learning/whatsnewDetail.cfm?coid=10419

I also came across an interview with David, Fall 2004.   In the interview he talks about the journey he has been on over the last 20 + years:
http://www.case.edu/pubs/cwrumag/fall2004/features/cooperrider_full.html 



enjoy

Mo





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