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    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
    Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization
    Audiobook10 hours

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

    Written by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey

    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne

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    About this audiobook

    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 Laskow 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781515979333
    Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization

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    • 4/5
      Having just read In Over Our Heads, which was written by one of the two authors for this book, I was expecting another too long and overly theoretical tome. Instead, this one resonated as valuable, practical and worthy of deeper study. I just bought a copy of my own to be able to have time to use the exercises and return to them as needed. Immunity to Change is all about finding the hidden obstacles that keep us from making the changes we know we should make. If course to do that, we also have o figure out what those changes are, being selective enough to have just one focus at a time. The harder work is on the other side of the process: figuring out what ingrained assumptions cause thinking that competes or blocks our change process. The book's case studies seemed unnecessarily long to me, but the whole book is written plainly enough that one can get through those sections. The more valuable part is the actual change process. The authors give a simple framework and clear steps for revealing a practical process for breaking through any type of personal change. The concepts can also apply to groups, with some modification to get the collective aligned. This book is a worthy read for anyone motivated toward personal growth or to develop an organization or team.
    • 4/5
      Kegan and Lahey wrote a brilliant and concise Harvard Business Review Article called "The Reeal Reason People Won't Change", (2001) in which they descuss the idea of "competing commitments" which are the true underlying motivators which cause us to act in ways that seem to go against our interests. In "Immunity to Change" the authors elaborate on their theory, and provide extensive worksheets and examples for getting to the root cause of personal and organizational impasse. Kegan and Lahey's work is thought-provoking and well worth the read. It's a little lengthy, however; so reach for the article for the executive summary if you don't have time for the deep dive.