David Cooperrider Quotes

United States, Professor
July 14, 1954

David Cooperrider is the Fairmount Minerals Chair and Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, and Faculty Director at the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Case. He also teaches at University of Pennsylvania as well as Claremont University, where he is The Peter F. Drucker Distinguished Fellow.

We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

David Cooperrider
- Failure
- Causes
- Discover
We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change. The future of Organization Development belongs to methods that affirm, compel, and accelerate anticipatory learning involving larger and larger levels of collectivity.

David Cooperrider

It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. It’s the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. It’s the capacity to see the most creative and improbable opportunities in the marketplace. It’s the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the possible.

David Cooperrider
All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

David Cooperrider
Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.

David Cooperrider
We live in the world our questions create.

David Cooperrider
- World
- Live
- Create
Business must be a force for good in the world.

David Cooperrider
- World
- Good
- Business