1. The nature of OD: philosophy, theory, and history - Who needs us? some hard thoughts about a moving target-the future - Richard Beckhard - Cold cash, cold logic, and "living in the hollows of our hands" - Tony Petrella - Eight myths OD consultants believe in...and die by - Development,transition or transformation: the question of change in organizations - Linda S. Ackerman The tao of change - Robert J. Marshak - Tension, change and values in OD - Robert F. Hurley, Allan H. Church, W. Warner Burke, Donald Van Eynde 2. The work itself - Who is the client? A different perspective - W. Warner Burke - The organization development contract - Marvin Weisbord - The politicization of organizational life: skills for critical issue management in a changing organizational environment - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - The perils and pitfalls of an OD effort - C. Philip Alexander - Creating critical mass to support change - John D. Adams - Strategy guidelines for an internal organization development unit - Roger Harrison - Reflections of a new mother on the similarities between caring for an infant and working with organizations, or what new babies and clients have in common - Rosemarie M. Barbeau 3. The care and feeding of OD consultants: the person of the consultant - Of time and the river - Bob Tannenbaum - Me and my shadow - David Noer - Rules of thumb for change agents - Herbert A. Shepard - Picking blackberries and pulling weeds: some metaphorical rules of thumb for consultants - Saul Eisen - Levels of development for OD consultants: moving from self-acceptance to mastery - George T. Lynn - Quality of work life for consultants - Tom Isgar - Bringing who you are to what you do - Geoffrey Bellman - A balanced life - Natasha Josefowitz - You are the instrument - Dave Jamieson 4. The breadth of OD - Business and community at Ben & Jerry's - Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield - The use of self-managing management teams - Robert J. DuBrul - Emerging designs for human systems - John Vasconcellos - Leadersship is everyone's business and other lessons from over a dozen years of leadership research - James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner - The women's movement is neither dead nor alive-it's just here - Between Monoculturalism and multiculturalism: traps awaiting the organization - Judith H. Katz, Frederick A. Miller