A Joosr Guide to... An Everyone Culture by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
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Why are most workplaces still stuck in the twentieth century? Is there a better way to create engaged and motivated employees? And could this have a positive impact on your bottom line?
There is, in fact, a groundbreaking type of organizational culture that can lead to massive success for the companies that implement it. Known as the Deliberately Developmental Organization (DDO), it has transformed the practices and profits of the world's best-performing hedge fund firm, a leading e-commerce company, and a successful entertainment business-and now you can find out its secrets.
You will learn:
· Why a DDO culture creates a stronger, happier, more successful workplace
· What the single biggest timewaster in the workplace is and how you can eliminate it
· Crucial tools, techniques, and practices used by successful DDOs
· How your organization can take the first steps to becoming a DDO.
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What’s it about?
In most organizations, each member of staff is doing two jobs. The first is the job that they were hired to do—their daily tasks and responsibilities. But the second is a secret job that is rarely talked about, or even acknowledged. Yet it probably takes up as much of an individual’s time, energy, and resources as the first (if not more).
This second job is image management
—essentially, keeping up appearances. It’s about making sure that you seem as competent as possible by concealing any weaknesses, insecurities, or mistakes. And it’s about maintaining the respect of your colleagues at all costs.
What’s more, in most organizations, people are actively in collusion with each other in this endeavor; they are happy to conceal one another’s errors in the unspoken understanding that their workmates will do the same for them. This doesn’t mean that they don’t vent or express frustration about people’s errors. Instead, they do so behind each other’s backs, creating a toxic atmosphere of mistrust. Yet no one would dream of calling someone out publicly on their incompetence—after all, they don’t want the same treatment to be handed out to them.
Imagine an organization where people don’t have to conceal their flaws,