The power of resilience: David Cooperrider at TEDxUNPlaza 2013

David L. Cooperrider, Ph.D. is the Fairmount Minerals Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Cooperrider is past Chair of the National Academy of Management's OD Division and has lectured and taught at Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, Katholieke University in Belgium, MIT, University of Michigan, Cambridge and others. Dr. Cooperrider is founder and Chair of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit.
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[cynthiamoody]

I use this as an assignment with my Organizational Behavior classes to inspire and educate. Resilience is an underlying theme; along with hope, inspiration and joy. Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and the 4D model is less well explained, though the use of AI as a large group planning tool is mentioned.

[poorvashuklavideos]

Mind blowing,
Positivity comes by taking lead and acting towards it

[socksumi]

George Orwell warned us about men like Cooperrider.

[GnosisMan]

WTF.. I'm 15 min into this talk and he has said nothing about resilience. ...

[paulmosca]

Watching this talk in the year 2020. What happened?

[socksumi]

Beware this deceiving wolf in sheeps clothing. Observe his corporate elite style of language, for example.. "what an amazing moment to be in the field of leadership and management". That's because he only cares about management, executives and their corporate agendas. He himself designed a program of applied psychology for use on front line workers that allows CEO's and management to implement change with minimal backlash or criticism by those negatively impacted.
What most fitting is almost empty audience. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[SteveBrant]

14:12 when he says we spend almost $10 Trillion per year on war (I'm paraphrasing)... and this figure is six years old.