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His contributions bridge \u003cstrong\u003ebusiness\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eeducation\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ephilosophical\u003c\/strong\u003e perspectives, inviting a nuanced appreciation of human potential and development.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"immunity-to-change-by-robert-kegan-9781422117361","title":"Immunity to Change","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eImmunity to Change\u003c\/i\u003e, authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey show how our individual beliefs—along with the collective mind-sets in our organisations—combine to create a natural but powerful immunity to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy 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 organisations forward with us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46451571851500,"sku":"9781422117361","price":80.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8855353482694.jpg?v=1747571472"},{"product_id":"an-everyone-culture-by-robert-kegan-9781625278623","title":"An Everyone Culture","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat if companies viewed becoming world-class less as the product of successful recruitment and retention efforts and more as the outcome of a relentless focus on the growth in capabilities—even personal development—of \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e the people who make up the company? What if a company did everything within its power to create conditions in which individuals could overcome their internal barriers to change, transcend their blind spots, and see errors and weaknesses as prime opportunities for personal growth?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Kegan and Lisa Lahey have found and studied such companies—Deliberately Developmental Organizations. A DDO is organised around the deceptively simple but radical conviction that organisations will best prosper when they are deeply aligned with people's strongest motive, which is to \u003ci\u003egrow\u003c\/i\u003e. This means more than consigning \"people development\" to high-potential leadership-development programmes, executive coaching, or once-a-year retreats. Deep alignment means fashioning an organisational culture in which support of people's ongoing development \u003ci\u003eis woven into the daily fabric of working life and visible in the company's regular operations, daily routines, and conversations\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book dives deeply into the worlds of three leading companies that embody this breakthrough approach and reveals the design principles at the heart of DDOs—from their disciplined, consistent approach to giving feedback, to how they use meetings, to how managers and leaders define their roles differently than in typical companies. The authors then show readers how to build this developmental culture in their own organisations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Everyone Culture\u003c\/i\u003e will cause you to rethink the basic notion of people-development in organisational life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853964497132,"sku":"9781625278623","price":80.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18291093482766.jpg?v=1759228204"},{"product_id":"in-over-our-heads-by-robert-kegan-9780674445888","title":"In Over Our Heads","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf 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, and showing what happens when we find ourselves, as we so often do, \u003cem\u003ein over our heads\u003c\/em\u003e. In this dazzling intellectual tour, he completely reintroduces us to the psychological landscape of our private and public lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA decade ago, in \u003cem\u003eThe Evolving Self\u003c\/em\u003e, Kegan presented a dynamic view of the development of human consciousness. Here he applies this widely acclaimed theory to the mental complexity of adulthood. As parents and partners, employees and bosses, citizens and leaders, we constantly confront a bewildering array of expectations, prescriptions, claims, and demands, as well as an equally confusing assortment of expert opinions that tell us what each of these roles entails. Surveying the disparate expert literatures, which normally take no account of each other, Kegan brings them together to reveal, for the first time, what these many demands have in common. Our frequent frustration in trying to meet these complex and often conflicting claims results, he shows us, from a mismatch between the way we ordinarily know the world and the way we are unwittingly expected to understand it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Over Our Heads\u003c\/em\u003e provides us entirely fresh perspectives on a number of cultural controversies—such as the \"abstinence vs. safe sex\" debate, the diversity movement, communication across genders, and the meaning of postmodernism. What emerges in these pages is a theory of evolving ways of knowing that allows us to view adult development much as we view child development, as an open-ended process born of the dynamic interaction of cultural demands and emerging mental capabilities. If our culture is to be a good \"school,\" as Kegan suggests, it must offer, along with a challenging curriculum, the guidance and support that we clearly need to master this course—a need that this lucid and richly argued book begins to meet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000648024300,"sku":"9780674445888","price":75.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2c7a0ea00505f01d7a268588d365f149.jpg?v=1763323779"},{"product_id":"change-leadership-by-robert-kegan-9780787977559","title":"Change Leadership","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChange Leadership\u003c\/em\u003e offers educational leaders the concepts and tools they need to bring about much-needed system-wide change in schools. 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According to Robert Kegan, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Evolving Self\u003c\/i\u003e describes this process of evolution in rich and human detail, concentrating especially on the internal experience of growth and transition, its costs and disruptions as well as its triumphs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of our meaning-making activity, the book suggests, is the drawing and redrawing of the distinction between \u003ci\u003eself\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eother\u003c\/i\u003e. Using Piagetian theory in a creative new way to make sense of how we make sense of ourselves, Kegan shows that each meaning-making stage is a new solution to the lifelong tension between the universal human yearning to be connected, attached, and included, on the one hand, and to be distinct, independent, and autonomous on the other. \u003ci\u003eThe Evolving Self\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of our continuing negotiation of this tension.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a book that is theoretically daring enough to propose a reinterpretation of the Oedipus complex and clinically concerned enough to suggest a variety of fresh, new ways to treat those psychological complaints that commonly arise in the course of development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKegan is an irrepressible storyteller, an impassioned opponent of the health-and-illness approach to psychological distress, and a sturdy builder of psychological theory. 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