Dedication
This text is dedicated to a dear friend and a great Lewinian practitioner, Carey “Cotton” Mears. Cotton not only created his own highly effective version of T-group based learning and action research, he was also a great example of Lewin’s strategy and values around transferring knowledge to the people the social scientist was serving.
My father, Robert P. Crosby, lives by that creed. While delivering OD services at an aluminum smelter in Indiana, dad and Cotton, a pot room tender (one of the toughest jobs in the smelter) and union steward, formed a lasting bond. Dad was there training and transferring social science skills to people at all levels of the organization, including Cotton. Cotton loved what he learned and turned it ...
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