Memoirs of a Change Agent: T-groups Organization Development and Social Justice

Memoirs of a Change Agent is the most comprehensive book ever written to illustrate Organization Development (OD). It includes significant interventions in manufacturing nuclear industry software and community development. The author takes one into the nitty-gritty of his successful interventions.Beyond the amazing interventions Crosby shares mostly unknown information about the beginning of Organization Development and integrates social justice with it as was the case in the birth of the T-group and the Organization Development movement.Our turnaround was valued at hundreds of millions of dollars...the underlying most significant change was a human intervention (goal alignment survey feedback and Crosbys Skill Groups). -George Bergeron Executive Vice President Alcoa (Retired)Crosbys account of the use of the T-group and Kurt Lewins social psychology is a must read for practitioners and academics. -Edgar H. Schein Professor Emeritus MITAt last a book that integrates the myriad threads of humanity OD T-groups and social justice threads often seen as unrelated. -Dr. Gloria J. Burgess CEO & President Jazz InternationalRobert Crosbys knowledge of the importance and application of T-groups is unsurpassed. -Dr. W.Warner Burke Columbia UniversityHow does significant change come about? Read this book and marvel as I did with how change is accomplished. -Dr. Rodney D. Coates Miami UniversityA gift to OD practitioners. He whispers at your shoulder: Heres what to expect how to handle it and the underlying principle. -Barry Oshry Developer of the Power LabAn exquisite text lovingly imagined for the next generation this tour de force should be required for aspiring applied social psychologists. -Dr. Richard A. Schmuck University of Oregon