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The Case of Nascent Pharmaceuticals: Overcoming Individual Immunities to Help a Team Succeed
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-2913BC-EThere are several ways to combat individual and organizational immunity to change. This chapter examines the case of one woman, Cathy, whose biggest change challenge emerged out of a groupwide initiative with her whole marketing team. According to the authors, this collective approach may be the most effective way to deliver on facilitating individual adaptive change in the context of an intact group's desire to improve its collective performance...Starting at €8.20
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Unlocking Potential: Three Necessary Ingredients--A Recipe for Overcoming Your Immunity to Change
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-2914BC-EIt turns out that some people are better suited to overcoming their immunities to change than others. Research suggests that the more people are connected to three key ingredients the more significant their changes will be. The gut provides the necessary, visceral desire to change that takes you beyond mere motivation; the head and heart must be engaged simultaneously to change your perspective; and the hand helps you take new action based on you...Starting at €8.20
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Growing Your Own: How to Lead So People Develop
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-2918BC-EChange dominates our work lives, our home lives, our politics, economics, and culture. Global thought leaders and practitioners alike constantly talk of change, but it's no surprise that less attention is paid to the feelings, anxieties, and motivations that spur passionate commitment NOT to change. This immunity to change is at the heart of individual and collective change prevention. Leaders and organizations that can master this force will dom...Starting at €8.20
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"We Never Had a Language for It": Engaging the Emotional Life of the Organization--Assessing a Group's Immunity to Change
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-2909BC-EHow do you become a learning organization? As a leader, you cannot grow the organization's ability to achieve its goals alone. Identifying goals as a team and bringing professional development issues to the forefront supports learning on a personal and organizational level simultaneously. This chapter tells the stories of two leadership teams that took on the challenge of identifying roadblocks to change in their organizations and adopted an incl...Starting at €8.20
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David Doesn't Delegate: Overcoming an Individual's Immunity to Change
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-2911BC-EAs any experienced manager will tell you, being an effective delegator is crucial to using everyone's time, skills, and knowledge appropriately. Without it, today's talents go underdeployed, tomorrow's talents go undeveloped, and some people--especially ineffective delegators themselves--get overused or burned out. Many practical guides, however, treat delegation as a technical challenge, or one with tried and true solutions and methodologies, wh...Starting at €8.20
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Diagnosing Your Own Immunity to Change
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-2915BC-EKnowledge and CommunicationAre you ready to start unlocking your potential? Are you interested in seeing what happens when once-countervailing energies are made available for productive purposes? The answer to these questions is most likely "yes," but what is the next step? In thisStarting at €8.20
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Overcoming Your Immunity to Change
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-2916BC-ESeeing how your self-protective motivations systematically prevent you from achieving exactly what you most desire is necessary. Insights can be powerful, even exciting, but they do not necessarily lead to transformation. You need a structure to help channel your aspirations, test and gain distance from your assumptions, and steadily build a new set of strategies for bridging the gap between your intentions and behavior. This chapter outlines a p...Starting at €8.20
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Reconceiving the Challenge of Change--The Importance of Individual Development
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-6731BC-EKnowledge and CommunicationIn the complex and ever-changing world we live in, human capability will be the critical variable in the new century. But leaders who seek to win a war for talent by conceiving of capability as a fixed resource to be found "out there" put themselves and their organizations at a serious disadvantage. Your ability to develop yourself, your people, and your teams, on the other hand, will distinguish your leadership ability. This chapter introduces a...Starting at €8.20
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Uncovering the Immunity to Change--The Psychological Phenomenon Behind Our Resistance to Change
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-6758BC-EKnowledge and CommunicationIt is not change itself that causes anxiety. It is the feeling that we are in over our heads, that our capabilities are insufficient to meet the challenge of change that engenders what the authors call an "immunity to change." In order to combat this immunity to change in yourself and your organization, you need to transform your mindset and learn how to detect the roadblocks that are preventing you from making the change you want to make. This c...Starting at €8.20
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Overcoming the Groupwide Immunity to Change: A Collective Approach
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-2910BC-EIndividuals and collectivities like work teams, leadership groups, departmental units, and whole organizations often unknowingly protect themselves from making the very changes they most want to make. They fall victim to a phenomenon the authors call "immunity to change." This chapter follows a number of teams and work groups as they explore their own immunity to change at the level of both individual group members and the group as a whole. This ...Starting at €8.20