An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (520 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1625278624 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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No business leader, at any level, should miss this one.” Fin24 (South Africa)Kegan and Laskow thoroughly analyze what they perceive to be the benefits of radical transparency through case studies on hedge fund giant Bridgewater, ecommerce company Next Jump, and real estate company Decurion.” Business Insider (businessinsider), Summer Reading ListKegan and Lahey (Harvard Univ.) incorporate adult-developmental theory to enhance organizational profitability, improve honesty in communications, reduce political maneuvering, and increase solutions to intractable problems.” Choice magazineRather than seeking competitive advantage in a company’s products or strategyKegan, Lahey, and their colleagues believe an edge can be found in the ability of corporations to develop adults as humansey develop the argument by parachuting
It suggests that the culture you create is your strategyand that the key to success is developing everyone.. There may be no greater waste of a company’s resources. The authors then show readers how to build this developmental culture in their own organizations.This book demonstrates a whole new way of being at work. The ultimate cost: neither the organization nor its people are able to realize their full potential. This means going beyond consigning people development” to high-potential programs, executive coaching, or once-a-year off-sites. What if a company did everything in its power to create a culture in which everyonenot just select high potentials”could overcome their own internal barriers to change and use errors and vulnerabilities as prime opportunities for personal and company growth?Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey (and their collaborators) have found and studied such companiesDeliberately Developmental Organizations. A DDO is organized around the simple but radical conviction that organizations will best prosper when they are more deeply aligned with people’s strongest motive, which is to grow. It reveals the design principles, concrete practices, and underlying science at the heart of DDOsfrom their disciplined approach to giving feedback, to ho
Jim Silva said If Your Business Leads Everyone in it to Develop Fully, Both Will Flourish. Get set. Fasten your seat belt. Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey have done it again. The future of business is already here, right in these pages. With innovative concepts, lively examples, and invaluable tools, these two Harvard psychologists unveil before your very eyes a radically new way o. Probably One of the Five Most Important Business Books You'll Ever Read. Here's Why. This is one of the most important business / personal development books you might read.If you are interested in organizational change and have been around the block once or twice, you may have found yourself a bit disenfranchised or frustrated by flavor of the month attempts at "change." Or, you. I couldn’t help but imagine what a “deliberately developmental school” would look like, and how such a school would operate David L. Gleason Having just finished reading An Everyone Culture, I am inspired by what I now know isn’t just possible, but by what is actually achievable – that there can be work environments that are simultaneously committed to promoting their product or services and also committed to promoting th