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How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work

Seven Languages for Transformation
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How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work reveals why there is often a gap between our intentions and the changes we manage to achieve at work. Harvard psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey guide readers through a practical journey to understand and overcome this challenge, offering tools to develop personalised communication methods that foster lasting transformation.
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Essential reading for leaders, managers, and anyone interested in improving workplace communication and sustaining meaningful organisational change.

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"Breakthrough thinking... compelling and inspiring. " Tony Schwartz, Fast Company Robert Kegan a widely respected and popular speaker in the field and Lisa Laskow Lahey show how the way we talk in the workplace can be understood as seven different types of speaking.

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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.

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ISBN: 9780787963781

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 January 2003

Country: United States

Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 224.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Robert Kegan, Ph.D., is the William and Miriam Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and author of The Evolving Self and In Over Our Heads.

Lisa Laskow Lahey, Ed.D., is research director of the Change Leadership Project at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

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