How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation - Couverture rigide

Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0787955353 ISBN 13 : 9780787955359

Editeur : Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 2000

Synopsis

This work is an innovative approach to business communication written by two Harvard-based authors. Revealed in this book, is a workplace community where certain ways of talking are encouraged and others made apparently impossible. By utilizing the seven new workplace "languages" discussed in this book to reveal the underlying feelings and motivation in one-to-one and group discussions at work, leaders can concentrate individual and social energy to transform communication and culture in the workplace. Using a mix of organizational analysis, worksheets and sample dialogues, the authors focus on providing new forms of language and thinking which ensure broad and long-lasting organizational transformation.

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"In this simple brilliant book, Kegan and Lahey not only deal with the how of transformation . . .they deal with the most central issue of all: How and why people (and organizations) are committed to not changing. . . a must–read for all individuals and organizations that truly wish to grow into their own greater possibilities."
Ken Wilber, author, Integral Psychology

"A genuinely 21st century book! Kegan and Lahey create a dynamic alternative to merely coasting on the momentum of the information age. Why do we know so much and yet so little lasting change actually occurs in ourselves and in our organizations? This book doesn′t just answer the question. It shows us a way out of the problem."
Michael Murphy, founder, Esalen Institute and author of The Future of the Body

"Leaders trying to ′drive change′ miss the deeper forces that might naturally enable it, forces which Kegan and Lahey reveal powerfully and practically."
Peter Senge, author, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

"Lucid, accessible, and immensely satisfying, this provocative book is plainly the product of a very deep understanding of why people behave the way they do. . . . an approach to change that is at once systematic and humane. . . . Breakthrough thinking. . . compelling and inspiring."
Tony Schwartz, contributing editor, Fast Company, and author, What Really Matters

Présentation de l'éditeur

Why is the gap so great between our hopes, our intentions, even our decisions–and what we are actually able to bring about? Even when we are able to make important changes–in our own lives or the groups we lead at work–why are the changes are so frequently short–lived and we are soon back to business as usual? What can we do to transform this troubling reality?

In this intensely practical book, Harvard psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey take us on a carefully guided journey designed to help us answer these very questions. And not just generally, or in the abstract. They help each of us arrive at our own particular answers that can solve the puzzling gap between what we intend and what we are able to accomplish. How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work provides you with the tools to create a powerful new build–it–yourself mental technology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0787955353
• ISBN 13: 9780787955359
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 250
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible