"""Countless times on back covers I've read: ""Every manager should read this book."" This book is one of the few where I believe this to be true. If you're looking to proactively and intentionally create your organization's future, instead of only passively preparing for whatever future may arrive, this book can be your guide."" Jeffrey Hicks, Ph.D. ""This book comprises a quest to new human approaches to the flourishing continuation of existing human systems. If I myself could give out a PhD, Cees would have obtained it already!"" Prof. Dr. Celeste P.M. Wilderom ""So much to appreciate in this work; the head spins with ideas. The work thus performs that which it attempts to describe. Deep appreciation for your efforts, Cees, stimulating as ever..."" Kenneth J. Gergen, Ph.D. ""The honest and transparent content of this book will leave the readers with a refreshing and warming feeling towards every-person and -thing around them. At least, this is the ""smiling"" feeling I always experience when practicing appreciative inquiry and that makes me ponder how much different the world would be if all people could embrace this lifestyle."" Lara Carminati Ph.D. ""Let academics classify this work as constructivist, structuralist, postmodernist, post-postmodernist, whatever; it is enriching, and relevant for all times. Call it genarrative!"" Geert W.J. Heling Ph.D."