I learn from Sandra Janoff – appropriately – of the sad death of Marv Weisbord, aged 93.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sandra-janoff-65bb59_facilitation-futuresearch-futuresearchnetwork-activity-7309580745893687296-Dv32
Memoriam from Sandra Janoff:
Official obituary (which is good on OD) and remembrances:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/marvin-weisbord-obituary?id=57948817
I never met Weisbord, but his thinking has been important to me – one of the original ‘energies’ in organisational development, very influential on and having worked with Peter Block and of course Sandra. Evidently Marv passed away as he lived his life – peacefully. He had retired and moved to a retirement community, where he continued to collaborate – this time on music.
Some of his pieces which were most important to me were covered here:
And here’s a lovely video with Sandra:
Sandra Janoff, Marv Weisbord, and roots into the history of human relations
A lovely 2020 interview with Dr Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge:
And his own retrospective piece, ‘my life on the learning curve’
https://blog.bestpracticeinstitute.org/my-life-on-the-learning-curve-by-marv-weisbord/
His latter musical career:
https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/102-year-old-releases-album-with-writing-partner-88/
Tribute wall:
https://www.chadwickmckinney.com/obituaries/Marvin-Weisbord/#!/TributeWall
And photos:
https://www.chadwickmckinney.com/obituaries/marvin-weisbord/#!/PhotosVideos/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/69652d03-7f5c-4ed3-b787-67fd145ec236
May his memories be a blessing.
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