My Interventions that Produced Great Results
Where: On line via Zoom
When: July 25th, 6-7:30 pm PST
I became 96 years old on July 1.
How many of you expect to live to be that old? One thing I love about it is that I’m becoming much more bold in acknowledging what I have brought to the world especially through my organization development work! I’ve struggled with self-esteem, loving Thomas Merton’s words, "It is the unaccepted self that stands in my way, and will continue to do so as long as it is not accepted".
Besides creating an institute and a graduate program that graduated well over 1000 including several hundred hourly workers, most of whom had not attended college, I helped organizations and in them many thousands of people become better humans and help their organizations become much more productive.
As an Alcoa VP said, "We were successful in achieving a turnaround valued at hundreds of millions of dollars." I also helped a US Department of Energy national project centered at Los Alamos that was in disarray successfully recover a $3 billion project.
The just completed article that you will receive upon registration and the conversation on July 25th are about what I actually did to achieve these results. You can do them as well!
I also will add something not in the article about my dream of inspiring whoever is on this Zoom to do significant community action as Lewin did in Connecticut and as I have done over and over in organizations (including the department of energy project) and in large and small community citizen involvement problem-solving.
Combining what I’ve written in my new article about macro and micro and the detailed problem-solving process in Chris’s book Strategic Engagement, Volume ll, chapter 5 (which you will also receive electronically upon registering), the problem-solving process, which is inclusive of change management, is there in its totality!
As Kurt Lewin did with the Connecticut fair employment task in 1947 to help communities, perhaps your own community can tackle serious issues in the community including flooding like is going on now in Florida from climate change. Climate change is global but each of us must try to do what we can in our local communities to confront it and the other problems facing us. The problem-solving process outlined in detail by Chris can help you do that. I’ll talk about that on the 25th along with all the other things in the article that you wish to discuss.
Robert P. Crosby is 96. He is an author, poet, singer, and organization development practitioner. In 1969 he founded the Leadership Institute of Spokane (later Seattle) – aka LIOS. An ordained Methodist, he was named a distinguished alumnus by Boston University, and received an LHD from Bastyr University. Crosby has three business books written out of his experience in organizations, along with his career "Memoir of a Change Agent" (called a "must read" by Edgar Schein), two spiritual books from his passion for non-dogmatic meaning and social justice, a poetry book, and, with his wife Patricia, a pictorial diary of a month in his beloved Volpaia, Tuscany, a village of 52 in Italy. In October 2014 you would have heard him in concert in the ancient church there. At age 86 you would have met him still working with two of his sons in their OD consultancy. And on October 1, at age 94, he sang a concert of secular and sacred music. At age 95 he published two paper, Dinner with Edgar, with the OD Review, and
The Seventh Question: A Reliable Indicator of Change When Answered in the Affirmative, with the Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences.
In 1953 he began his immersion in the budding T-group and organization development movements, was personally mentored for decades by Ronald Lippitt, while simultaneously learning from the "godfather of the civil rights movement", mystic Howard Thurman, who famously impacted the young MLK Jr.
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