
An Everyone Culture
Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
- 336 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
An Everyone Culture
Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
About this book
A Radical New Model for Unleashing Your Company’s Potential In most organizations nearly everyone is doing a second job no one is paying them forânamely, 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 ânot just select "high potentials”âcould overcome their own internal barriers to change and use errors and vulnerabilities as prime opportunities for personal and company growth?Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey (and their collaborators) have found and studied such companiesâDeliberately Developmental Organizations. A DDO is organized around the simple but radical 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 DDOsâfrom their disciplined approach to giving feedback, to how they use meetings, to the distinctive way that managers and leaders define their roles. The authors then show readers how to build this developmental culture in their own organizations.This book demonstrates a whole new way of being at work. It suggests that the culture you create is your strategyâand that the key to success is developing everyone.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Meet the DDOs
- 2 What Do We Mean by Development?
- 3 A Conceptual Tour of the DDO
- 4 In the Groove
- 5 But Is This Any Way to Run a Business?
- 6 Uncovering Your Biggest Blind Spot
- 7 Creating Home
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors