1. The crisis in OD / W. Warner Burke and David L. Bradford -- 2. The future of OD, or why don't they take the tubes out of grandma? / Jerry B. Harvey -- 3. Contemporary challenges to the philosophy and practice of organization development / Robert J. Marshak -- 4. A historic view of the future of OD : an interview with Jerry I. Porras / David L. Bradford and Jerry I. Porras -- 5. Organization development : requiem or reveille? / Tony Petrella -- 6. OD : wanted more alive than dead! / Larry E. Greiner and Thomas G. Cummings -- 7. On the demise of organization development / Chris Argyris -- 8. Organization development : a wedding of anthropology and organizational therapy / Edgar H. Schein -- 9. A paradigm for professional vitality / Peter P. Vaill -- 10. Ideas in currency and OD practice : has the well gone dry? / Barbara Benedict Bunker, Billie T. Alban and Roy J. Lewicki -- 11. The future of OD? / David L. Bradford and W. Warner Burke.