How the Way We Talk Can Change the Wa..., Lisa Laskow Lahey
How the Way We Talk Can Change the Wa..., Lisa Laskow Lahey
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work
Seven Languages for Transformation

Author: Lisa Laskow Lahey, Robert Kegan

Narrator: Mo Egen

Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/20/2020

Synopsis

A whole new approach to business communication by two brilliant, Harvard-based educators, trainers and consultants. Kegan and Lahey show us how the way we talk in the workplace can be understood as seven different types of speaking, seven languages that reveal our attitudes, expectations, corporate culture, hidden agendas, emotional baggage, motivation and other crucial characteristics and issues. They show how all managers and executives are actually leading "language communities" wherein certain ways of talking are encouraged and others made apparentlly (but not actually) "impossible". And most importantly the provide the organizational analysis, workshieets, and sample dialogues which provide a revolutionary new technology for long-lasting positive change, showing everyone who works how to: * Convert compaining into an honest statement of underlying belief and mission * Stop blaming and take responsibility * Convert traditional myths about the organization into realistic progress * Replace flattery and artifical rewards with ongoing regard * Change "contructive criticism" to courageous dialogue from differeng perspectives.

About Lisa Laskow Lahey

Lisa Laskow Lahey is a Harvard-educated adult developmental psychologist. The former associate director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she is also cofounder and codirector of Minds at Work, a consulting group that works with senior leaders and teams in corporations, government, and nonprofits. She is coauthor, with Robert Kegan, of How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eugene on February 17, 2017

This is probably the most accessible of Robert Kegan et al.’s books. As I was editing (as a scientific/terminological editor) its Russian translation, I was quickly learning basic steps for charting the immunity to change and applying it to practice immediately. This book is really good. It is brief......more

Goodreads review by Sara on February 03, 2008

I will read this book again and again in my professional life; it provides a set of tools for transformative change unlike any other I have seen. Major lightbulbs went off over and over as I read this.......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on August 17, 2012

This book was an assigned reading during seminary for field education. After several years I went back and reread the book, and wrote a book review for another seminary course on Church Leadership. I recommend the book for anyone but especially consider it a valuable tool for engaging discussions ar......more

Goodreads review by Sunny on January 22, 2020

I liked this overall and it followed some of my own thinking around Brutiful Conversations. (BCs is a concept that an incredible and inspirational friend of mine, currently living the high life in sunny Australia, and I co-created) (Diamonds are forever ...) The key premise of this book was that org......more

Goodreads review by nadeem on March 04, 2008

My dad is ecstatic over my desire to rip out the bad qualities I have fostered in my approach to conversation, relationships, and work. He's a professor of management and human behavior, so he's had lot's of great sugggestions. This was the first one and so far it's looking to be a valuable look int......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List