Title: Immunity to Change Pdf How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization (Leadership for the Common Good)
Author: Robert Kegan
Published Date: 2009-01-01
Page: 340
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 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.
A Psychological Perspective to Leadership Challenges Immunity to Change is not so much a book about resisting change as it is a book of one's identity. The authors' claim is that the reason we are resistant to change is because change challenges one's current identity and that going through an identity crisis part of growing in leadership. The evidence backing this theory is sound and comes from 20+ years of study. The thesis statement supports this summary of the book, "The problem is the inability to close the gap between what we genuinely, even passionately, want and what we are actually able to do. Closing this gap is a central learning problem of the twenty-first century." The problem is not a lack of willingness, but a lack of awareness and methodology to overcoming this immunity to change.The writing style starts off, in the first chapter, as very much a journal article type format with numbers and charts and academic language throughout. As the book progresses, the narratives become more frequent and with individual case studies rather than overarching generalizations. The author does well in sharing only what is relevant to the text with his narrations and saving the rest of the story for the appropriate context later in the book. It reads much like Influencer or Crucial Conversations in that regard. I, personally, felt that the stories just may have been a bit too long at some points with the subject matter being too little.In sharing the real-life case studies, the authors well present their thesis to identifying and overcoming adaptive (see adaptive vs. technical) challenges. By presenting these case studies, the authors demonstrate that these are not just theories but are very real and very valid methods to creating change not just in one's own identity, but entire corporations as well. These case studies range from the common man to the corporate executive and her peer group. Furthermore, the facts and statistics that are associated to these leadership challenges are well documented and displayed throughout the book.In conclusion, a person or organization that needs help tackling challenges that have been frustratingly unsuccessful should check this book out. It goes beyond just telling a person to act this way and actually helps one to readjust his or her identity. Also, the knowledge in this book will aid in recognizing what challenges are technical and what challenges are adaptive, and how to appropriate the solutions.Knowledge you can use for breakthrough performance Immunity to Change is very powerful for the space that one must explore on the way to powerful leadership practices. The “subject-object relationship” is vital to understanding how a given mindset “works” for us to create ease in making sense of things, while conveniently affording us a perspective that takes in the picture of a world from which our worst fears have been taken, compartmentalized, and hidden in plain sight. Powerfully useful. The immunity to change.See pp. 1-60, an excellent summary of the stages of adult human consciousness. Especially, pp. 47-53 focuses on the "subject-object" dynamics that stand at the crossroads of growth for leadership effectiveness.The rest of the book illustrates (with relevant examples) an efficient method for uncovering hidden assumptions, fears that hold us in one mindset, with which we must make peace before we can make good on our intention for creating greater effectiveness in our lives.It really carries great potential for creating genuine change Poorly written (sales-y, many redundant examples)Management-orientedPotentially classistYet, the underlying model is extremely powerful and is totally worth slogging through the book. You can read the first 3-4 chapters and get everything you need from this. The real benefit comes from going through the Immunity Process itself. It really carries great potential for creating genuine change, and I'm excited to continue working on myself with this model.
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