Foreword
Dialogic Organization Development: Past, Present, and Future
Dialogic Organization Development (OD) could not have arrived at a better time. The assumptions underlying it and some of the goals for social change and improvement that it articulates not only build on an important historical legacy but reinforce those aspects of OD that will be most needed in the future. I would like to review some of these trends in terms of my own experience of the last sixty years and show how that leads to my enthusiastic embracing of what Bushe and Marshak are trying to get us to see and do with this powerful book.
When I was in graduate school my “old” mentors such as Gordon Allport were always carrying on about the importance of history ...
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