ASU Micro and Macro Leadership Practice Behaviors Systemic Strengths Discussion

There are many case studies of organizations that have adopted an appreciative approach to leadership. One article by David Cooperrider and Michelle McQuaid, “The Positive Arc of Systemic Strengths” details the impacts of six case studies where leadership took an appreciative approach to bring their ‘whole system in the room’ (which is one way to practice distributed leadership by literally inviting all stakeholders to have an equal role in the strategic planning process) using the specific AI Summit method to address specific leadership challenges; they got extraordinary results.

Using the examples from this article, reflect and analyze the case illustrations using the following guiding questions:

• What micro-leadership practices/behaviors do you think individual leaders had to take to support these macro-level leadership interventions?
• How do you see the 5 success factors for a “macro-management approach to leveraging systemic strengths” that Cooperrider and McQuaid outline as being related to the concept of distributed leadership & the 4-C’s of “Leaderful Practice” described by Raelin’s in Week 3?
• What new insights did you get for your own organization(https://www.morneaushepell.com/ca-en as a benefits analyst) and/or future organizations you might work for from these case illustrations?
• What new insights did you get for your personal work as a leader from this case illustrations?

Please submit:

• A 5 page, double-spaced, Times, 12-point font Word document that provides your analysis and reflections to the above prompts with a minimum of 3 references.