CHAPTER 1Any Sector, Any CultureFuture Search Cases from Everywhere
In 1953 our friend Bapu Deolalikar, then head of human resources for the parent company of Calico Mills in Amedabad, India, witnessed one of the world’s first participative work design projects. Uneducated loom-shed workers, faced with a new technology, implemented their own multiskilled teams in a few days after a briefing from A. K. “Ken” Rice of London’s Tavistock Institute (Weisbord, 2004, ch. 9).
Nearly 40 years later, having consulted to development projects on many continents, Bapu startled us when he called Future Search “culture free.” He pointed out that Future Search enables people to work entirely from their own experience and belief systems. “I could use this model ...
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