Richard Beckhard

Thinkers1918 to 1999Organization development pioneer

Works

  • Organizational Transitions: Managing Complex Change, 1977

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Known for

A founder of organization development who taught at MIT Sloan. With Reuben T. Harris he set out how to manage an organization through a planned change, including the commitment chart, and he popularized David Gleicher's formula that dissatisfaction, vision, and first steps must together outweigh resistance.

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