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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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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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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
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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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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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Surfacing Your Collective Immunity to Change: Helping Groups Realize Their Full Potential
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-2917BC-EJust as individuals do, work groups, leadership groups, organizations, and other collectivities can unknowingly prevent themselves from achieving what they most desire due to a collective immunity to change. This chapter is designed to assist you in diagnosing your group's particular immunity and to help you move forward toward collective goals and improved levels of functioning and performance. This chapter is excerpted from "Immunity to Change:...Starting at €8.20
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Cathy Can't Contain Herself: Overcoming an Individual's Immunity to Change
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-2912BC-EIssues with self-management and emotional self-regulation at work are widespread and can prevent even the brightest people, like Cathy, from realizing their full potential. This chapter examines how Cathy came to understand that she both created and was captive to high levels of stress in her work life. As her story illustrates, understanding the source is the first step toward overcoming your immunity to change. This chapter is excerpted from "I...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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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