Topics in this repository

One directory per model, framework, method, or system, in topics/. The canonical, browsable inventory — grouped by family, with every evidence label — is topics/index.md.

Every model file carries an evidence label stating plainly what is supported and what is not. Every diagnostic model has a paired questionnaire — a copy-and-use instrument, marked Q below.

Foundations, process, and ethics

Diagnostic models

Change models

Culture, team, and human models

Facilitation and large-group methods

Measurement

Key books

  • Beckhard, Organization Development: Strategies and Models
  • Block, Flawless Consulting
  • Bridges, Managing Transitions
  • Cameron & Quinn, Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
  • Cummings & Worley, Organization Development and Change
  • Dekker, Just Culture
  • Edmondson, The Fearless Organization
  • Forsgren, Humble & Kim, Accelerate
  • Galbraith, Designing Organizations
  • Kegan & Lahey, Immunity to Change
  • Kotter, Leading Change
  • Meadows, Thinking in Systems
  • Rother, Toyota Kata
  • Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership; Humble Inquiry
  • Senge, The Fifth Discipline
  • Skelton & Pais, Team Topologies
  • Weick & Sutcliffe, Managing the Unexpected
  • Weisbord & Janoff, Future Search

Organizational Development — a comprehensive practitioner's guide to OD for health care professionals, software engineers, and senior executives. Every framework says what the evidence is, and where it is weak.

Source and contributions: github.com/organizational-development. Built with the Lily Design System™.