A mixed smorgasbord:
lots from the excellent http://managementhelp.org/ library (see contents page at that link
Particularly I recommend the series by John Scherer and Billie Alban: History of Organization Development (Part 1 of 6) — “Prehistoric OD”: http://managementhelp.org/blogs/consulting-skills/2012/03/05/history-of-organization-development-part-1-of-6-prehistoric-od/
History of Organization Development (Part 2 of 6) — “The Psychologists”: http://managementhelp.org/blogs/consulting-skills/2012/03/19/history-of-organization-development-part-2-of-6-the-psychologists/
History of Organization Development (Part 3 of 6) — A Timeline of Who Did What and When: http://managementhelp.org/blogs/consulting-skills/2012/04/13/history-of-organization-development-part-3-of-6-a-timeline-of-who-did-what-and-when/
History of Organization Development (Part 4 of 6) — Frederick Taylor, the First Modern ‘Change’ Consultant: http://managementhelp.org/blogs/consulting-skills/2012/04/13/history-of-organization-development-part-3-of-6-a-timeline-of-who-did-what-and-when/
History of Organization Development (Part 5 of 6) — Wilfred Bion and Eric Trist “The Birth of Self-Managed Work Groups”: http://managementhelp.org/blogs/consulting-skills/2012/06/26/history-of-organization-development-part-5-of-6-%E2%80%94-wilfred-bion-and-eric-trist-the-birth-of-self-managed-work-groups/
History of Organization Development (Part 6 of 6) – “Can People Really Change? The Genius of Kurt Lewin”: http://managementhelp.org/blogs/consulting-skills/2012/07/27/history-of-organization-development-part-6-of-6-can-people-really-change-the-genius-of-kurt-lewin/
Videos on the above subjects from Ron Scherer: http://scherercenter.com/
Organisation development overview: http://managementhelp.org/organizationdevelopment/index.htm
History of OD (pdf): https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fshodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in%3A8080%2Fjspui%2Fbitstream%2F10603%2F3343%2F7%2F07_chapter%25201.pdf
Another one (pdf): https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cehd.umn.edu%2Folpd%2Fresearch%2FStudentConf%2F2011%2FMeyerODYesterdayTodayTomorrow.pdf
‘what are self-managing teams’: http://www.infoq.com/articles/what-are-self-organising-teams
Marvellous stuff Ben! How did I ever miss this feast?
I’m bumping this and encouraging people to read or re-read the ‘History of Organizational Development’ above, in the context of ‘teal’, ‘reinventing organisations’ etc :-)