đź“–An everyone culture: becoming a deliberately developmental organization
- authors
- Kegan, Robert
- year
- 2016
- url
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/1625278624/
- (first chapter is kind of hard to read and I got a lot of ego resistance)
- p.1 people spend time hiding imperfections and playing politics
- re: Teal organizations > wholeness
- p.3 it’s hard to see deficiencies looking at “normal” organizations. You can only see them when you look at organizations that do things differently
- p.50 Bridgewater records every meeting and unless client’s private data is discussed, the recording is available for everyone in the company
- that also helped the company to win a couple of sues (they showed that company operates the way it tells)
- p.52 Pain + Reflection = Progress
- p.57 in DDO, development means developing the person (self-development). Career advancement and company growth come as a result
- p.58 construction of reality becomes more expansive, less distorted, less egocentric, and less reactive
- p.60 mental complexity increases continuously with age (there is no peak) → Mental peak at 25 is a misconception, Man’s mental complexity never peaks
- p.61 individual growth happens in jumps and plateaus
- re: Mastery
- “Levels of mental complexity”
- p.63 stages:
- The socialized mind (stage 3). Agenda and worldview is set by others.
- p.64 groupthink: withhold information and go with project that is doomed to fail to “support” the leader
- The self-authoring mind (stage 4). Self-coherent belief system.
- p.66 filters information based on its own preset agenda
- even if an aspect is explicitly communicated as important (and acknowledged), it can still be filtered out and ignored (until there are consequences)
- e.g., being told by boss that teamwork is important, acknowledging it, and the still playing solo (because that’s your paradigm)
- even if an aspect is explicitly communicated as important (and acknowledged), it can still be filtered out and ignored (until there are consequences)
- p.66 filters information based on its own preset agenda
- The self-transforming mind (stage 5, <1%). Can reflect on self belief to be just a perspective. Can hold multiple systems.
- p.68 still has a filter but it is not fused. Person can take a step back and look at the filter.
- The socialized mind (stage 3). Agenda and worldview is set by others.
- p.76 — see for distribution among stages
- p.83 DDO is not for all. It is designed for one thing specifically: developmental transformation. And it is favored by those who regard as precious the opportunity to learn and grow.
- DDO: high turnover first 12–18mo
- p.85 depth of community (home) Ă— breadth of practices (groove) Ă— height of aspirations (edge)
- p.87 adults can grow
- p.124 current organizations focus on performance, not practice
- provide practices at different levels: personal, team, organization
p.152
Every practice rests on theory, even if the practitioners themselves are unaware of it. —Peter Drucker
- p.166
- delegate authority downward
- people do what they would have to wait for for a couple of years in other companise
- review the role of coaching
- delegate authority downward
- p.170 intrinsic (job opportunities) / extrinsic (money) motivation