Immunity to Change, Robert Kegan
Immunity to Change, Robert Kegan
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Immunity to Change
How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization

Author: Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey

Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/06/2016

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

A recent study showed that when doctors tell heart patients they will die if they don't change their habits, only one in seven will be able to follow through successfully. Desire and motivation aren't enough: even when it's literally a matter of life or death, the ability to change remains maddeningly elusive.

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 Laskow 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.

About Robert Kegan

Robert Kegan is the William and Miriam Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. The recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards, his thirty years of research and writing on adult development have contributed to the recognition that ongoing psychological development after adolescence is at once possible and necessary to meet the demands of modern life. His seminal books, The Evolving Self and In Over Our Heads, have been published in several languages throughout the world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melanie on July 21, 2014

I had high expectations for this book and didn't feel like it delivered. The first chapter is about how powerful this book has been with groups... so I kept reading to figure out the details. Reading the book felt like listening to a infomercial on how groups can change when their steps are implemen......more

Goodreads review by Margaret on May 26, 2012

A reviewer on Amazon described this book well: Immunity to Change is a challenging analysis of how our well-developed methods of processing information and experience become barriers that hinder our attempts to achieve adaptive change. The first section of the book describes the theory and can be pr......more

Goodreads review by Suhrob on February 11, 2019

1. I really like Kegan's developmental psychology model. 2. While the model is interesting conceptually, apparently the empirical evidence for it is more tenuous than Kegan admits. 3. Kegan then comes up with a method how to work through personal and professional changes (this book). 4. The immunity to......more

Goodreads review by Matt on January 24, 2019

There were only 2 interesting and helpful concepts in the entire book. One was the idea of “mental complexity” which is the measure of one’s ability to inspect and manipulate their own perspective rather than getting caught up in it. The second idea is that most people’s hesitancy to change, terrib......more

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