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Hidden competing commitments defeat sincere change goals.
Robert Kegan (b. 1946), the Meehan Professor of Adult Learning at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Lisa Laskow Lahey, co-founder of Minds at Work, applied constructive-developmental psychology to the puzzle of failed change. Their immunity-to-change method and the 'deliberately developmental organization' make adult growth the engine of organizational performance.
Kegan and Lahey applied adult developmental psychology to change: people hold hidden competing commitments and big assumptions that immunize them against their own goals. Their 'deliberately developmental organization' makes growth the daily work of everyone.
The era: Distributed & Complex — Distributed, dispersed, interdependent, embedded in interaction; leadership as learning; global competencies; combine all theories.
Hidden competing commitments defeat sincere change goals.
Where this work feeds the Open Sky frameworks.
Fellow travelers on these threads:
Map the immunity: improvement goal, competing commitment, big assumption — then test the assumption.
Make development everyone's daily work, not a program for the few.