How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation

Why is the gap so great between our hopes, our intentions, even our decisions-and what we are actually able to bring about? Even when we are able to make important changes-in our own lives or the groups we lead at work-why are the changes are so frequently short-lived and we are soon back to business as usual? What can we do to transform this troubling reality?

In this intensely practical book, Harvard psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey take us on a carefully guided journey designed to help us answer these very questions. And not just generally, or in the abstract. They help each of us arrive at our own particular answers that can solve the puzzling gap between what we intend and what we are able to accomplish. How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work provides you with the tools to create a powerful new build-it-yourself mental technology.

• Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization (Leadership for the Common Good)
• An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
• In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life
• The Leader's Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative
• Co-Active Coaching: Changing Business, Transforming Lives
• The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development
• The Internal Coherence Framework: Creating the Conditions for Continuous Improvement in Schools
• Powerful Learning: What We Know About Teaching for Understanding
• Instructional Rounds in Education: A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning
• Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods: Integrating Theory and Practice