An Everyone Culture
by Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey · first published 2016
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In most organizations nearly everyone is doing a second job no one is paying them for—namely, covering their weaknesses, trying to look their best, and managing other people’s impressions of them. There may be no greater waste of a company’s resources. The ultimate cost: neither the organization nor its people are able to realize their full potential. What if a company did everything in its power to create a culture in which everyone—not just select “high potentials”—could overcome their own internal barriers to change and use errors and vulnerabilities as prime opportunities for personal a
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I think you might find An Everyone Culture, by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey a worthwhile read. It challenges what you say, on some level, and reinforces it in other ways. Like you said, it's a balancing act. But one aspect you left out…
on “Humans are Liars” ↗I'll end the year at 83 or 84 books for the year (depends on what I choose to start once I get home from the day's festivities), and here were the highlights for me: 1. An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey, et al An Everyone Culture profiles three high-performing companies that look very different, but all share the…
on “Ask HN: Great books you read in 2018?” ↗There are great books about making innovation your default culture. I highly recommend reading "An Everyone Culture" which is about creating Deliberate Learning Organizations: https://blog.coderbyheart.com/an-everyone-culture
on “A critique of Accelerate (XLR8) by John Kotter” ↗Check out "An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization" It's a fascinating profile of the pioneering organizational cultures at three companies, Bridgewater, Next Jump (a tech startup in NYC), and Decurion…
on “Principles” ↗Well, everybody starts somewhere. And books greatly help (me) to get more input and some books (like An Everyone Culture) are so outstanding and unique, that it's worth reading them even if you are not in the position to change an organization.
on “A critique of Accelerate (XLR8) by John Kotter” ↗…world, and I've found his research with Lisa Lahey to be extremely useful both for my personal development and for my company. We currently have a pilot program implementing insights from their books An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization (one of the best books I've read in years, and I read a lot) and Immunity to Change, and I think it's made a significant difference for those who are…
on “Kegan's Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness” ↗You might also be interested in books that profile other companies experimenting with this kind of transparency: "Reinventing Organizations" by Frederic Laloux "An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization" by Kegan and Lahey The latter profiles Bridgewater, a hedge fund in which every meeting is recorded and available to anyone in the company via the…
on “Open Salaries: Outcomes” ↗Just finished Last Days by Brian Evenson and started An Everyone Culture by Kegan and Lahey.
on “Ask HN: What are you reading this weekend?” ↗…institutions around. I wonder if places like my fictional ZZZ Corp could figure this out? It looks like Kegan and his colleagues have just popped out a new book on the topic. http://www.worldcat.org/title/everyone-culture-becoming-a-de...
on “Why 30 is the decade friends disappear” ↗