ABSTRACT
This chapter is not a summary of, a review of, or a critical analysis of the previous chapters. They contain a wealth of information and can be judged on their merits by individual readers, given the objectives of each chapter’s authors. Instead, the objective here is to ask certain questions of the historical record for this comparatively young field and, given the answers, attempt to infer how we might go about trying to maximize our contributions in the future. Depending on one’s perspective (i.e., chronological age), industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology is only three or four generations old, and everyone can trace his or her genealogy back to one or more of the founders. Is this a long enough record, or sample size, to produce stable assessments? Perhaps not, but let’s do it anyway.
