How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work

How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work Book Cover How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work
Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey,
Business & Economics
John Wiley & Sons
02/07/2001
256

Udgivet 7 år efter "In Over Our Heads" er den her bog tidsmæssigt den tredje af Robert Kegan's bøger jeg har læst.  Sammen med Lisa Laskow Lahey har Kegan taget sin teori om voksnes udvikling, og nu anvendt den i forretningsverdenen.

Det sker i en struktur, hvor der præsenteres syv sprog, som fremmer transformation. Vævet ind i denne struktur er også Robert Kegans "Immunity to change map", et værktøj jeg kommer til at nævne flere gange her på bloggen.

Kapitlerne har fået nogen ret lange navne, men her er de:

  • Introduction: What Do You Really Want ... and What Will You Do to Keep from Getting It?
  • From the Language of Complaint to the Language of Commitment
  • From the Language of Blame to the Language of Personal Responsibility
  • From the Language of New Year's Resolutions to the Language of Competing Commitments: Diagnosing the Immunity to Change
  • From the Language of Big Assumptions That Hold Us to the Language of Assumptions We Hold: Disturbing the Immunity to Change
  • From the Language of Prizes and Praising to the Language of Ongoing Regard
  • From the Language of Rules and Policies to the Language of Public Agreement
  • From the Language of Constructive Criticism to the Language of Deconstructive Criticism
  • Running the Internal Languages
  • Running the Social Languages
  • Epilogue: Toward the Transformation Highway: Transcending the Limits of the Information Age

Bog nr. 2 i min Kegan maraton, som jeg indledte med In Over Our Heads. Her bliver Kegans teori om voksnes mentale udvikling anvendt på forretningsverdenen, og dermed et mere snævert og praktisk fokus.  Læs videre “How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work”