Is third-party intervention an appropriate intervention in this case? Other possible OD interventions?

1. If you had been called by Lincoln’s president to help resolve the problems
described in the case, how would you have carried out the contracting and diagnosis
stages? What would you have done differently than what the OD consultant did?

2. Is third-party intervention an appropriate intervention in this case? Other possible
OD interventions?
3. How effective was the third-party intervention? Next steps?