How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work
Seven Languages for Transformation
How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation
By Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey
- Explores the gap between intention and results. Kegan and Lahey examine why our hopes, decisions, and commitments so often fail to translate into the outcomes we want at work.
- Introduces the “Seven Languages for Transformation.” The book outlines specific ways of speaking and interacting that shift how individuals and teams think, collaborate, and take responsibility.
- Provides practical tools for changing workplace conversations. Readers learn concrete practices that help turn everyday dialogue into a catalyst for learning, accountability, and progress.
- Shows how language can unlock organizational change. By transforming how people communicate, leaders can reshape patterns of behavior and create more effective, adaptive teams.
About
In this intensely practical book, Harvard psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey take us on a carefully guided journey to help us answer why the gap between our hopes, our intentions, our decisions, and the outcomes we create is so significant. They help each of us arrive at our own particular answers that can solve the puzzling gap between what we intend and what we can 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.
Reviews
“Lucid, accessible, and immensely satisfying, this provocative book is plainly the product of a very deep understanding of why people behave the way they do… an approach to change that is at once systematic and humane… breakthrough thinking… compelling and inspiring.”
Tony Schwartz, Contributing Editor, Fast Company, and Author, What Really Matters
“New, practical, and effective strategies for today’s core leadership challenge: how to transform behavior in ourselves and others – without the debilitating crisis that is usually needed – by seeing and transcending the forces that hold us back.”
Michael Jung, Director, McKinsey & Company
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