1. In a foreword to Bushe and Marshak’s (2015) Dialogic Organization Development, Edgar Schein (2015) claims that: ‘Dialogic Organizational Development (OD) could not have arrived at a better time. The assumptions underlying it and some of the goals for social change and improvement that it articulates not only build on an important historical legacy but reinforce those aspects of OD that will be most needed in the future.’ Discuss and assess this claim.