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Jo

Thanks for this Steve. This is a wonderfully rich post. My head is buzzing.

But I shouldn't just take. So what can I contribute? I answered someone's question on LinkedIn about preparing for a career in OD and L&D. I think I will send her this link.

For people connecting into university curricula, I would say our field has progressed through
a) looking at behavior, stimulus-response or do-this (shutter-click)and
b) looking at goals, cognition and mental models or achieve-this (image)
to
c) an emerging level of looking at meaning. I don't have the words for the psychological model that is being used or X-this. Steve has added (frame).

Incidently, any military out there will be laughing at us quietly. They have always used this with the acronym, or similar acronyms, SMEAC. Situation, Mission, Execution, Administration, Communication. Even when I have been in "telling" situation (to use the Hersey & Blanchard model), I've found that when things have gone wrong, it was because we didn't communicate the situation effectively and people had to do their jobs blind of one or two facts which turned out to be relevant! Of course, meaning goes a lot further. Even in "telling" situations, life and work is so much more fun when we are learning other people's point of view.

Thanks so much for the post. I love the critical conversation and critical mass = critical change.

Steve Roesler

Good morning (EDT) Jo!

Well, I appreciate the encouragement regarding the article. As you know so well, just before clicking the "Publish" button, one always wonders if something in the post will strike a chord with the reading population.

The OD/L&d field has, indeed, changed over many years. I'm not sure, though, that it has actually been focused on producing what I would call "genuine" OD practitioners as of late. I'm seeing more and more specialists in sub-sets of OD vs. folks who have a complete systemic approach to, and knowledge of, total OD.

As for the military quietly smiling: that's where I first became interested in leadership development and eventually taught at one of the Army leadership academies. That led to going back to graduate school after my service, and then going into the corporate world. In my mind, there is still no better or more effective leader development than in the military.

Cheers!

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