This book provides a new answer to what enables successful people to dream up their extraordinaryand innovative ideas; why employees, partners, colleagues, investors, and other stakeholders join them on the path to theirgoal, and how they achieve these goals despite obstacles and challenges. It is not simple optimism. People with appreciative intellegence are realistic and action oriented--they have the ability not just to identify positive potential, but to devise a course of action to take advantage of it.