Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change: A Third Edition

THE ART OF THE OD PRACTITIONER

Acquiring relevant knowledge and skills, gaining hands-on experience, concerning yourself with professional and personal values, and involving yourself in personal learning processes are necessary for your development as a professional practitioner, but they are not sufficient. Beyond these lies an area about which we have little understanding; to a considerable extent it is shrouded in mystery. What has made possible the accomplishments of people such as Michael Jordan, Yo-Yo Ma, and Oprah Winfrey, as well as our most admired and valued colleagues in OD? In our professional field, if we try to understand what has made our “stars” into masterful professionals, we encounter more differences than similarities ...