Can workers’ mistakes and weaknesses become opportunities for their personal growth? Can they positively influence the development of the business? Can a company’s culture become its strategy? By exploring companies' internal structures, what Kegan and Lahey refer to as "Organizational Consciousness", the authors of An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.
“The way we’re going to be a better company is by your working on yourself, and helping others work on themselves.”
― Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
“Imagine so valuing the importance of developing people’s capabilities that you design a culture that itself immersively sweeps every member of the organization into an ongoing developmental journey in the course of working every day. Imagine making the organization itself--and not separate, extra benefits--the incubator of capability...”
― Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
“It is a consistent mark of the DDOs we studied that the senior people are as deeply engaged in the personal growth journey as the newest hires. Working”
― Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
“Over time, I came to formulate my purpose as providing contexts for people to flourish .”
― Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
“Decurion exposes and overturns the assumption that work is public and the personal is private, and so the personal should not be part of work. In the same way, Decurion rejects the idea of work-life balance as a simple goal or mantra. After all, if your life is everything outside the workplace, then that leaves a bleak notion of what work is—something that we’re forced to trade off against joyful living.”
― Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
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“In an ordinary organization, most people are doing a second job no one is paying them for...Most people are spending time and energy covering up their weaknesses, managing other people’s impressions of them, showing themselves to their best advantage, playing politics, hiding their inadequacies, hiding their uncertainties, hiding their limitations.”
― Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
“The process of unlocking human potential is painful but necessary”
― Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
“Greg Jensen, co-CEO, explains that all this success derives from the company’s approach to its principles, a source of “compounding understanding,” much like compound interest, over time.”
― Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
“Invest energy and time into communicating with people- it is a good investment.”
― Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
“People are not only the means but also the final results for any type of work.”
― Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
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“When we experience failure, we create circumstances for learning and development of consciousness flexibility.”
― Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
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Kintone Intern. Recently graduated from the University of San Francisco as a Media Studies major. Originally from Almaty, Kazakhstan. Went to high school in Hawaii and lived in Paris for a year as part of the study abroad program. Enjoys traveling and learning about life in different parts of the world. Always aware of what is going on in the tennis world (committed Nadal fan).
