Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization

Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization

ISBN-10:
1422117367
ISBN-13:
9781422117361
Pub. Date:
01/13/2009
Publisher:
Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN-10:
1422117367
ISBN-13:
9781422117361
Pub. Date:
01/13/2009
Publisher:
Harvard Business Review Press
Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization

Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization

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Overview


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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781422117361
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date: 01/13/2009
Series: Leadership for the Common Good
Pages: 340
Sales rank: 51,420
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Pt. I Uncovering a Hidden Dynamic in the Challenge of Change

1 Reconceiving the Challenge of Change 11

2 Uncovering the Immunity to Change 31

3 "We Never Had a Language for It": Engaging the Emotional Life of the Organization 61

Pt. II Overcoming the Immunity to Change in Organizations, Individuals, and Teams

4 Overcoming the Groupwide Immunity to Change: A Collective Approach 87

5 David Doesn't Delegate: Overcoming an Individual's Immunity to Change 125

6 Cathy Can't Contain Herself: Overcoming an Individual's Immunity to Change 145

7 The Case of Nascent Pharmaceuticals Overcoming Individual Immunities to Help a Team Succeed 169

Pt. III Over to You: Diagnosing and Overcoming Immunities in Yourself and Your Organization

8 Unlocking Potential: Three Necessary Ingredients 209

9 Diagnosing Your Own Immunity to Change 227

10 Overcoming Your Immunity to Change 253

11 Surfacing Your Collective Immunity to Change 283

Conclusion: Growing Your Own: How to Lead So People Develop 307

Notes 325

Index 329

About the Authors 339

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