MIT Press for the Society for Organizational Learning

From the Founding EditorLast December, the field of organization development and learning lost oneof its founders and great leaders with the death of Richard Beckhard at age 81. Dick was one of my mentors and a close colleague throughout my career. He served on the board of the original MIT...

From the Founding FditorWelcome to issue 2 of Reflections. We have learned a great deal in launching a new journal and, hopefully, you will see in each successive issue evidence of our own learning.We all know that start-ups reveal errors of various sorts no matter how hard one tries to avoid them...

From the Fouridirig Editor EDITORIAL One of the most powerful elements of culture is how the self is defined. Every culture develops powerful concepts that parents teach their children about what should and should not be one's self. These concepts become so ingrained and taken for granted that...

From the Founding Editor EDITORIAL Last summer, my wife and I saw a wonderful production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen performed beautifully by the Seattle Opera. In studying for this event, 1 learned that when Wagner first conceptualized the final opera, Götterdämmerung, or The...

From the Founding Editor I hope that by now our readers have learned that Reflections tries to be a coat of many colors. Most of our issues have evolved around themes, and these themes have usually arisen out of a critical mass of contributions that clearly hung together. We have also evolved...

From the Founding Fditor EDITORIAL Dear Reader, I want to introduce Reflections: The SoL Journal and tell you what our basic purpose is and how we propose to go about fulfilling it. What makes the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) as an organization unique is the effort on the part of...