Planned Change

Acknowledgments

 

First and foremost, I owe my professional career to the subject of this book, Kurt Lewin. The book itself should be ample testimony to my respect for and debt to this extraordinary man.

My knowledge of Lewin and his methods has come primarily from my father, organization development (OD) practitioner extraordinaire, Robert P. Crosby, and so he gets the second tip of my hat. Dad, by the way, is still sound of mind and engaged in life socially and professionally at 91 at the time of this writing. His latest book, Memoirs of a Change Agent: T groups, Organization Development, and Social Justice, just hit the presses in October 2019. You will get to know him better, especially towards the later end of this book.

From my father, ...