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Volume 3, Number 2 • Spring 2007
From The Editor
The New Practitioner
By Michael D. Mitchell
Most of us in the field of Organization Development have come through the disciplines of behavioral science. Thus, the field has always been strongly one that leaned toward the human processes, including the consulting processes that are involved in making organizations different. Difference doesn’t always mean better, more productive, or more successful in the marketplace, I might add.
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Mergers & Acquisitions: The HR Paradox
By Larry Kroh
Fifty to eighty percent of mergers fail due to cultural and Human Capital-related integration issues. Ironically, many companies still do not adequately address this problem in their planning. The Boston Consulting Group found that, “8 out of 10 companies did not even consider how the acquired company would be integrated into operation following the acquisitions.”
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From the Bedroom to the Boardroom: Forty Years As A Sole Practitioner
By David C. Wigglesworth
In 1967 I decided to become a management and organization development consultant. I had experience teaching at universities and colleges in Latin America, Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa, had managed multiple projects in the developing world, and had held corporate management and leadership positions in educational publishing in New York and California. Organization development, as we know it, was relatively new.
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Triple Impact Coaching: Use-of-Self in the Coaching Process
By Beverley Patwell and Edith Whitfield Seashore
Reviewed by Don Bushnell
When I was first introduced to coaching as practiced by OD professionals, the image that came to mind was Leporello whispering into the ear of Don Giovanni (or was it the other way around?) in Mozart’s opera. But now that I’ve read Bev Patwell and Edie Seashore’s new book Triple Impact Coaching, I know that one-on-one coaching is not the only form of that practice.
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BOOK CORNER by Don Bushnell, Book Editor
Listed the six most interesting books that have crossed my desk this past quarter. The few sentences on each are meant to whet the reader’s appetite and each merits further tasting.
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