About OD

Welcome to about OD... a forum for ideas, issues and stories from the field in the world
of Organisation Development

Stories from the Field

A series of stories and video presentations relating to the world of Organisation Development.

  • Productivity and Corporate culture

    Many Corporate clients have told us that too many of their employees are not sufficiently well motivated. Though such employees are often fired, their replacements frequently descend to the same level as those whom they replaced. "What's happening?" they ask. "Are we always destined to have employees who are under-motivated, who are clock watchers, and complainers?" To increase employee morale and corporate productivity, you must dramatically alter corporate culture.

  • Geoff Bellman: 30 years of OD History

    Geoff Bellman, Edgar Schein, Roger Harrison, Marv Weisbord, and Don Swartz, the founder of the OSR program, discuss their involvement in the last 30 years of organization development at the OSR graduate program at Seattle University on October 20, 2009.

  • Interview with Juliette Powell

    Juliette Powell (born at Manhattan, New York, United States) is a Canadian television host, producer and author. She was the Miss Canada titleholder in 1989, that contest's first Black Canadian winner. Juliette Powell is a media entrepreneur, a community catalyst and the author of 33 Million People in the Room : How to create, influence and Run a Successful Business with Social Networking, (January 2009, Financial Times Press). Drawing on first hand experience as a social media expert and co-founder of