(December 20, 1914-January 10, 1995) A pioneer in humanistic psychology and the originator of Trust Level theory, Jack Gibb's distinguished career as a psychologist and consultant spanned five decades. Often referred to as the grandfather of organizational development, he applied TORI theory to all forms of organizations, from corporations and governments to schools, churches, and hospitals. He was the original proponent of the importance of trust in team dynamics and organizational behavior, and the effect of trust on creativity. He was an early innovator at the renowned National Training Laboratories in Bethel, Maine, where behavioral scientists performed the pioneering work in team dynamics, communication, sensitivity training, and leadership training in the 1940's and 1950's. Jack was one of the first and most highly regarded T-Group (training group) leaders at NTL, served as Director of Research, and co-authored two books with the three NTL founders: T-Group Theory and Laboratory Method and The Laboratory Method of Changing and Learning. His seminal book was Trust: A New Vision of Human Relationships for Business, Education, Family, and Personal Living. An internationally acclaimed consultant, Jack consulted for IBM, AT&T, General Motors, Dow, DuPont, the State Department, the IRS, TVA, YMCA, and the National Council of Churches. He held a doctorate in psychology from Stanford and has taught at Brigham Young, Michigan State, and the University of Colorado, where he also directed the Group Process Laboratory. Jack is past President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and a fellow of the APA, ASA, the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences, and of the International Association of Applied Social Sciences. He contributed chapters to 26 professional books on management, organizational development, group dynamics, human potential, communication, and education, and over 350 articles to professional journals on those subjects and on learning theory, therapy, and counseling. His classic article "Defensive Communication," written in 1960, continues to be the standard in the field. Over one million copies of the article have been distributed to staff of various corporations. Jack received numerous international awards for his contributions to the fields of psychology, education, communications, organizational development, and world peace. His work focused on capturing and translating a new vision of a more trusting world.

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Jack Gibb published, besides his book Trust: A New View of Personal And Organizational Development, chapters in 26 professional books on management, organizational development, group dynamics, human potential, communications, and education, and hundreds of articles in professional journals on those subjects and on learning theory, therapy, and counseling. In the early 1980s, he was intensely involved in Astron and Omicron, both ideas that had developed from his work in Trust Level Theory (TORI). Three small books were growing from that effort, culled from voluminous collections of writings, some of which were distributed to groups he led. After he died in 1994, we obtained computer disks containing the files of these three books from Diane Beakey, a close associate in his later years. We are grateful for Ms Beakey's permission to make them available through this medium. The Trilogy, as he called it, is offered here, with "bookmarks" in place of page numbers in the tables of contents. The Jack Gibb Trilogy:

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