Planned Change: Why Kurt Lewin's Social Science is Still Best Practice for Business Results, Change Management, and Human Progress

"Gil Crosby has accomplished what most of us in the world of applied behavioral science, in general, and OD and T-Group training, in particular, have not-making the theoretical father of our work accessible.Thus, this book is a gift and with it we can understand more deeply and teach others more accurately what Lewin actually stated and meant.Moreover, the book is reader-friendly, visually appealing, and humorous rather than academically boring.Thank you, Gil!"Dr. W. Warner Burke E.L. Thorndike Professor of Psychology and EducationTeachers College, Columbia UniversityKurt Lewin (1890-1947) was a visionary psychologist and social scientist who used rigorous research methods to establish an approach to planned change that is both practical and reliable.He mentored and inspired most of the early professionals who came to identify themselves as practitioners of organization development (OD).He also fostered the emergence of the experiential learning method known as the T-group, which uniqu