These are the authors' personalized statements of how organizations function, how organizational excellence is to be judged, and how an organizational development effort can contribute to the achievement of such excellence. The book deals with the fundamentals of planned change as they apply to the corporation. It describes the principles and concepts of Grid Organization Development and its method of planned change, and presents techniques, instruments, and phases of development essential for inducing change and achieving desired results in an orderly but vigorous and controlled way. (Authors/NL)