Books by Robert Kegan

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 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.

Forfatterne og psykologerne Robert Kegan og Lisa Laskow Lahey har bogstaveligt talt brugt hele deres arbejdsliv på at arbejde med det problem som de måske har løst med deres denne bog: Hvordan man lukker hullet for det folk i virkeligheden har til hensigt at gøre, og det, de faktisk er i stand til at afstedkomme. At mindske denne afstand er ifølge forfatterne et af det 21. århundredes centrale læringsproblemer. Forandring, Ja tak! er til alle som har forsøgt – og fejlet – med at foretage forandringer i deres liv, eller som har forsøgt at hjælpe andre med at foretage forandringer i deres. Og den er især skrevet til dem der leder, styrer, fører tilsyn, konsulterer, rådgiver, oplærer, coacher eller underviser. De beskrivelser og historier du finder i Forandring, Ja tak!  viser en vej til virkelig udvikling, til de kvalitative bevidsthedsudvidelser, der øger det menneskelige potentiale på ar-bejdspladsen betydeligt - ikke ved at nyansætte, men ved at forny den eksisterende talentmasse. Robert Kegan og Lisa Laskow Lahey tilskrives æren for den banebrydende opdagelse af en skjult dynamik, der hæmmer personlig og organisatorisk transformation. Dette arbejder (med det, de kalder forandringsimmuniteten) har fundet vej til ledere og teams i erhvervslivet og det offentlige samt udannelsesinstitutioner i USA, Europa og Asien.

If contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would anyone graduate? In the spirit of a sympathetic teacher, Robert Kegan guides us through this tricky curriculum, assessing the fit between its complex demands and our mental capacities.

The Evolving Self focuses upon the most basic and universal of psychological problems-the individual's effort to make sense of experience, to make meaning of life. Meaning-making is a lifelong activity that begins in earliest infancy and continues to evolve through a series of stages encompassing childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.