How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work

By Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey,

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Book description

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…

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Why read it?

1 author picked How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The most valuable and practical part of the book is their “mapping your immunity to change” process.

This process asks people to understand the things that they do, how they do the things that they do, and how the way they think can keep people from actually being able to change.

The book moves from an individual level to how organizations talk, and how people and organizations talk together. It changes how people can work together. 

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