Immunity to Change
Description
Unlock your potential and finally move forward.
A recent study showed that when doctors tell heart patients they will die if they don't change their habits, only one in seven will be able to follow through successfully. Desire and motivation aren't enough: even when it's literally a matter of life or death, the ability to change remains maddeningly elusive.
Given that the status quo is so potent, how can we change ourselves and our organizations?
In Immunity to Change, authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey show how our individual beliefs--along with the collective mind-sets in our organizations--combine to create a natural but powerful immunity to change. By revealing how this mechanism holds us back, Kegan and Lahey give us the keys to unlock our potential and finally move forward. And by pinpointing and uprooting our own immunities to change, we can bring our organizations forward with us.
This persuasive and practical book, filled with hands-on diagnostics and compelling case studies, delivers the tools you need to overcome the forces of inertia and transform your life and your work.
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Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, coauthors of How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work, have been research and practice collaborators for twenty-five years. Kegan is the William and Miriam Meehan Professor in Adult Learning and Professional Development at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. Lahey is the Associate Director of Harvard's Change Leadership Group and a founding principal of Minds at Work, a leadership-learning professional services firm.
Content
- Intro
- Copyright
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE: UNCOVERING A HIDDEN DYNAMIC IN THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE
- Chapter 1: RECONCEIVING THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE
- Chapter 2: UNCOVERING THE IMMUNITY TO CHANGE
- Chapter 3: "WE NEVER HAD A LANGUAGE FOR IT"
- PART TWO: OVERCOMING THE IMMUNITY TO CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS, INDIVIDUALS, AND TEAMS
- Chapter 4: OVERCOMING THE GROUPWIDE IMMUNITY TO CHANGE
- Chapter 5: DAVID DOESN'T DELEGATE
- Chapter 6: CATHY CAN'T CONTAIN HERSELF
- Chapter 7: THE CASE OF NASCENT PHARMACEUTICALS
- PART THREE: OVER TO YOU
- Chapter 8: UNLOCKING POTENTIAL
- Chapter 9: DIAGNOSING YOUR OWN IMMUNITY TO CHANGE
- Chapter 10: OVERCOMING YOUR IMMUNITY TO CHANGE
- Chapter 11: SURFACING YOUR COLLECTIVE IMMUNITY TO CHANGE
- CONCLUSION: GROWING YOUR OWN
- NOTES
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
