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We need to expand our understanding both conceptually and practically of Appreciative Inquiry and how it is becoming a grassroots-powered transformational macro-management force in organizational life today. This volume aims to push the frontiers and solicit new tools and insights for expanding the state-of-the-art applications of AI. We aim for mindsets, management methods and governance structures that go beyond enterprise resource planning and value chains optimization, and move toward designto the joint design of whole systems and bio-regions, whole organizations, and whole communities by everyone.