SOCIAL PHENOMENA AFFECTING BREAKTHROUGHS ABOUT INDIVIDUALS IN SYSTEMS
Cutting-edge OD practitioners are creating powerful new personal development approaches standing on the shoulders of Kurt Lewin. But they have gone beyond his breakthrough theories of the 1940s. Lewin’s principles were a timely counterbalance to the attraction of personal therapeutic models of Freud and Jung and to behavioral psychologists like Skinner. Of crucial importance was Lewin’s classic formula of a person’s relationship to his or her environment;
B = f(P, E), where behavior (B) equates to the function (f) of the person (P) plus his or her environment (E).
‘His formula implies that individuals are not isolated entities behaving in a vacuum (individual internal); ...
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