This work chronicles the rise of new trends such as globalization and technological breakthroughs, and assesses their short- and long-term significance for companies. Through a series of interviews with business leaders, it analyzes how firms have reinvented themselves in response to change.

This volume contains the must reads for a depth of understanding about organization change. Each of book's seventy-five papers included in this volume have launched their own fields of inquiry or practices and are the key readings for any student or practitioner of organization development. The most notable articles on organization development by such luminaries in the field as Bennis, Schein, Tichy, Tushman, Weick, Drucker, Quinn, Beckhard, O'Toole, Bridges, Hamel, Gladwell, and Argyris.