Field

The honest limit, stated first. Force field analysis is a thinking aid impersonating a measurement. You invent the scores, and the moment they are written down inside a diagram they start to look like analysis, which is the whole trick and the whole problem. This page prints under every diagram that the numbers are yours, because that is the only honest label for them. The three step model everybody attributes to him, unfreeze, change, refreeze, is not a thing he wrote in that form. His real finding, from the wartime food studies and the workshop that accidentally invented the encounter group, is that the decision made out loud in a group holds and the lecture does not, which is about groups and not about diagrams. And the tool's actual career has mostly been in corporate change management, where it makes a decision that was already taken look participatory. Use it on your own life, where nobody is being managed, and the instruction is still good: take the restraints away first.