This second edition of Ironies in Organizational Development contains 25 chapters plus an overview and they represent a complex mixture—of the old and the new, of the tried-and-true as well as the speculative, of the here-andnow with a dash or two of the by-and-by. To provide some specificity, most of the major components of this volume did not appear at all in the first edition, and 11 chapters were part of the previous book but are revised here—bringing points up to date, citing new research, and eliminating mistakes. Some questions follow, quite naturally. Why this particular assemblage? And why now?.
