An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization

Miller is a lecturer on education and Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Andy Fleming is the CEO and a founding principal of Way to Grow INC, the research and consulting home of the Deliberately Developmental Organization.Deborah Helsing is a lecturer on education

What if a company did everything in its power to create a culture in which everyonenot just select high potentials”could 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 companiesDeliberately Developmental Organizations. 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. This means going beyond consigning people development” to high-potential programs, executive coaching, or once-a-year off-sites. 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. A DDO is organized around the simple but radical conviction that or

An Everyone Culture is founded upon a simple yet powerful insight: that the best way to unleash an organization's power is to realize the full potential of its individual employees." ---Dominic Barton, Global Managing Director, McKinsey & Company

Jim Silva said If Your Business Leads Everyone in it to Develop Fully, Both Will Flourish. Get set. Fasten your seat belt. Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey have done it again. The future of business is already here, right in these pages. With innovative concepts, lively examples, and invaluable tools, these two Harvard psychologists unveil before your very eyes a radically new way of being at work.Their basic premise is startling. In the ordinary business organization, most people have two jobs: the public one they’re actually paid to do as well as a very private one they do in secret—hiding their individual limitations and weaknesses, trying to look good. What if, these authors ask, your orga. Probably One of the Five Most Important Business Books You'll Ever Read. Here's Why. Otis Woodard This is one of the most important business / personal development books you might read.If you are interested in organizational change and have been around the block once or twice, you may have found yourself a bit disenfranchised or frustrated by flavor of the month attempts at "change." Or, you may be mystified why most leadership development doesn't seem to stick. Or you may have read about concepts like "learning organizations," "integral theory," "employee engagement" and the like but have no idea how to implement such things. If any of this sounds familiar to you, then this is the book you've long awaited.Here, y. "I couldn’t help but imagine what a “deliberately developmental school” would look like, and how such a school would operate" according to David L. Gleason. Having just finished reading An Everyone Culture, I am inspired by what I now know isn’t just possible, but by what is actually achievable – that there can be work environments that are simultaneously committed to promoting their product or services and also committed to promoting their employees’ development. In this book, Kegan and Lahey term these environments as deliberately developmental organizations, or “DDOs.”While none of the organizations profiled in this book is a school, I couldn’t help but imagine what a “deliberately developmental school” would look like, a