What if a company did everything in its power to create a culture in which everyone could overcome their own internal barriers to change and use errors and vulnerabilities as prime opportunities for personal and company growth?
Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey have found and studied such companies – deliberately developmental organizations. A DDO is organized around the conviction that organizations will best prosper when they are more deeply aligned with people’s strongest motive, which is to grow. This means going beyond consigning “people development” to high-potential programs, executive coaching, or once-a-year off-sites. It means fashioning an organizational culture in which support of people’s development is woven into the daily fabric of working life and the company’s regular operations, daily routines, and conversations. An Everyone Culture dives deep into the worlds of three leading companies that embody this breakthrough approach. It reveals the design principles, concrete practices, and underlying science at the heart of DDOs – from their disciplined approach to giving feedback to how they use meetings to the distinctive way that managers and leaders define their roles.
I couldn’t help but imagine what a “deliberately developmental school” would look like, and how such a school would operate Having just finished reading An Everyone Culture, I am inspired by what I now know isn’t just possible, but by what is actually achievable – that there can be work environments that are simultaneously committed to promoting their product or services and also committed to promoting their employees’ development. In this book, Kegan and Lahey term these environments as deliberately developmental organizations, or “DDOs.”
Probably One of the Five Most Important Business Books You’ll Ever Read. Here’s Why. This is one of the most important business / personal development books you might read.
If Your Business Leads Everyone in it to Develop Fully, Both Will Flourish Get set. Fasten your seat belt. Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey have done it again. The future of business is already here, right in these pages. With innovative concepts, lively examples, and invaluable tools, these two Harvard psychologists unveil before your very eyes a radically new way of being at work.