Top Highlights

• Routine, role-related tasks and short-term projects are typically accomplished through two types of power—referent power and logistical power.
• action inquiry works primarily from the inside-out.
• Action inquiry begins because we (any one of us, or any family, or organization) experience some sort of gap between what we wish to do and what we are able to do. The awareness of this gap can lead to the development of a clear intent to accomplish something beyond our own current capacity. In such a case, the very intent to act includes two eleme...
• Action inquiry interweaves research and practice in the present.
• Power differences and the unilateral use of power by either party reduce the likelihood of trust and honest communication.