Seven Languages for Transformation
E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book
ISBN: 978-0-7879-5866-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
In this intensely practical book, Harvard psychologists RobertKegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey take us on a carefully guided journeydesigned to help us answer these very questions. And not justgenerally, or in the abstract. They help each of us arrive at ourown particular answers that can solve the puzzling gap between whatwe intend and what we are able to accomplish. How the Way WeTalk Can Change the Way We Work provides you with the tools tocreate a powerful new build-it-yourself mental technology.
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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: What Do You Really Want . . . and What Will You Doto Keep from Getting It? 1
Part One: The Internal Languages: Building the New Machine11
1 From the Language of Complaint to the Language of Commitment13
2 From the Language of Blame to the Language of PersonalResponsibility 33
3 From the Language of New Year's Resolutions to theLanguage of Competing Commitments: Diagnosing the Immunity toChange 47
4 From the Language of Big Assumptions That Hold Us to theLanguage of Assumptions We Hold: Disturbing the Immunity to Change67
Part Two: The Social Languages: Maintaining and Upgrading theMachine 89
5 From the Language of Prizes and Praising to the Language ofOngoing Regard 91
6 From the Language of Rules and Policies to the Language ofPublic Agreement 103
7 From the Language of Constructive Criticism to the Language ofDeconstructive Criticism 121
Part Three: Carrying on the Work 147
8 Running the Internal Languages 149
9 Running the Social Languages 187
Epilogue: Toward the Transformation Highway: Transcending theLimits of the Information Age 229
The Authors 235
Index 237