Don’t Create a Solution Bigger Than the Problem
Robert Cenek at The Cenek Report points out some enduring wisdom from OD guru Roger Harris.
An organization development intervention should occur at a level no deeper than that required to produce enduring solutions to the problems at hand; and
The intervention should be at a level no deeper than that at which the energy and resources of the client can be committed to problem solving and to change.
The quotes are from an article, Choosing the Depth of Organizational Intervention, written by Harris in 1970, but no less true 38 years later.