Practicing Organization Development: Leading Transformation and Change, 4th Edition

Acknowledgments

No book is the product of its editor or authors alone. This book is no different. Creating a fourth edition takes a great deal of time, effort, depth of conversations, and flurries of emails with many people. Accordingly, we would especially like to thank the editorial, design, and production team at John Wiley & Sons for their support of this project, especially Matt Davis (Acquiring Editor), who has provided direction and answered our questions for each and every edition. We also enjoyed working with Heather Brosius and Tiffany Colon (Editorial Assistants), Abirami Srikandan (Production Editor), Becky Morgan (Manufacturing Manager), and Paul McCarthy (Cover Designer) on this edition.

We are tremendously grateful to our contributing authors for their willingness to write their chapters and respond to our repeated requests for revisions and proper citations with references. The array of authors provides a wealth of history, present moments, and future possibilities of OD since the 1950s. It has been an honor to work with them! Thank you to Lou Carter, who has made many contributions to the field of OD and took the time to write the Foreword for the fourth edition, capturing the success, changes, and challenges of the field especially in this edition as it relates to transformation.

A special thank you to family and friends who provided backup reviews and edits to our chapter reviews as the deadline came to a close. These include Jae Young Lee, Paul Stavros, and ...