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About the Author

Woodrow H. Sears earned one of the early doctorates in

human resource development, studying under Leonard Nadler

at George Washington University, the man who coined the

term and created the professional and academic discipline

known as HRD. Before beginning his career in management,

Woody was a photographer; a newspaper reporter; a Marine

officer; and later an editor with the Cooperative Extension

Service at North Carolina University, where he earned a

master’s degree in adult education. He worked at Leadership

Resources, Inc., one of the country’s first behaviorally-

oriented consulting firms, and served as HR manager and

later the director of training for an environmental company.

He has provided consulting services for a broad range of

industries and technologies, U.S. federal agencies, and

Canadian crown corporations and provincial governments.

After extensive Civil Rights, EEO, and police training,

Woody Sears shifted his focus to project management, devel-

oping project-management systems for domestic and interna-

tional clients and lecturing at universities. The author of Back

in Working Order: How American Enterprises Can Win the

Productivity Battle (Scott Foresman, 1984) and co-author

with Audrone Tamulionnyte-Lentz of Succeeding in Business

in Central and Eastern Europe: A Guide to Cultures,

Markets, and Practices (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001),

Woody was in Slovakia as a volunteer with the International

Executive Service Corps in 1998 when he was asked to go to

Lithuania for a one-month assignment. He is still there.

Contact Woodrow Sears by e-mail at: woodysears@

yahoo.com.