Future Squared with Steve Glaveski Episode #46: Building an Everyone Culture with Robert Kegan
Bob Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development. He is co-founder of Minds at Work, a consulting group that works with senior leaders and teams in corporations, government and non-profits.
He is also the William and Miriam Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development at Harvard University where he codirects the Change Leadership Group and the Harvard-Macy Institute for the Reform of Medical Education.
He has contributed to many articles and books on psychological development and he has published seven books, including the critically acclaimed:
- An Everyone Culture - becoming a deliberately developmental organization (co written with Lisa Lahey) 2016
- Immunity to Change - 2009
- Change Leadership - A Practical Guide to Transforming our Schools (2005)
- How the Way we talk can change the world - 2002
- The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development (1982)
- How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation (with Lisa Lahey, 2001)
- In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life (1994)
Topics Discussed:
- How to build an everyone culture
- The problem with brainstorming
- Why individual beliefs and collective mindsets hold back change
- How to become a deliberately developmental organisation (DDO)
- How to create a culture of experimentation that celebrates smart failures
- How to overcome ego in the workplace to foster stronger communication and innovation
- What some of the world’s most progressive companies are doing to transform their culture
- How self deatist beliefs siubsconsciously hold us back in our personal and professional lives
Show Notes:
Get their books:
- Immunity to Change: https://amzn.to/2xJJGKD
- An Everyone Culture: https://amzn.to/2xLJ5Z8
- How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: https://amzn.to/2OJLtqx
- The Evolving Self: https://amzn.to/2QQsLPj
- Change Leadership: https://amzn.to/2xw0J3o
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