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Diagnosing Our Immunity to Change
Written by: Ben NashArticle Overview: Why do we find it so hard to change? Think of all your New Year’s resolutions that remain unfulfilled or your gym membership that goes unused because you find it so hard to change your old ways.
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Diagnosing Our Immunity to Change
Why do we find it so hard to change? Think of all your New Year’s resolutions that remain unfulfilled or your gym membership that goes unused because you find it so hard to change your old ways.
What stops you changing—or as Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey ask it in their book “Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself”, what is the root cause of your immunity to change? Kegan and Lahey claim that most of the time we are unaware of the “one big thing” that stops us changing. They say that we have to dig deep into our unconscious mind to discover the source of the problem. The authors provide us with a handy-dandy tool they call “The Immunity to Change X-Ray”, which helps us work through the process.
They also provide some pretty convincing examples of people who discover their “one bit thing”. One example is of a senior executive who found it impossible to delegate—in fact he was a micro manager. After working with the “Immunity to Change X-Ray” process it became clear that his unwillingness to let go was based on his deep seeded conviction that you should never ask other people to do your work for you as it is a sign of laziness. That was his “one big thing”. Once he became aware of this he was able (with some coaching help) to re-frame his thinking about delegation and view it as a way to free himself up to do the work that only he could do. Our recommendation: read this book; it will make you think about change at a deeper level, and who knows, you may discover your own “one big thing”!
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About the Author: Ben Nash RSS for Ben's articles - Visit Ben's website  Ben Nash is the editor-in-chief of DailyHRTips.com. He is the founder and chief developer of the blog, providing tech/design support as well as tips and book reviews. Ben has held many interesting jobs in his professional career, including: barista, landscaper, public policy intern, barista (again), professional horse wrangler, ski lift attendant (aka "liftie"), political science teaching assistant, marketing and sales assistant, and an ecommerce/web developer. He also doubles as the Creative Director at Aspen Organization Development Consulting. Ben has interacted with many people, in many different organizations and offers some interesting insight on the human resources game. You can read his blog at http://www.DailyHRTips.com and visit his website at http://www.AspenOD.com. Click here to visit Ben's website   Talent Development and The Wheel of Becoming Do you know your organizations Execution Quotient A Message for Instructional Designers Learning Styles Are Important The French Open and Customer Service Training When I Grow Up I want to be a Leader or Maybe a Manager |
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- [quote="TheAnonymousMan":2f894q6j]When discussing the majority of people I would definitely say that most people hit the "Change" or "Ignore" button without thinking too much about the correct spelling of a word. All bosses are concerned about is getting the report to the Directors meeting on time.[/quote:2f894q6j]
That probably depends on what the "majority" are trying to accomplish. I have word set to alert me about misspellings and grammatical problems, so I fix most as I go. But I also add names etc to the dictionary because I get tired of seeing the red and green squiggles when I know the info is right.
If you're only going to click "Change" or "Ignore" then why bother to take the time to use spell check????? Business people that I work for want the info compiled in a timely manner and they want it right - which is fine because that's the way I strive to do any project. Sending out a memo, letter, report etc with obvious spelling and grammatical mistakes makes the person and the company look bad as far as I'm concerned.
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- Hi GT
It is only fairly recently that people in South Africa have been able to get full use of Paypal as we were only able at one time to make payments but not receive them. Fortunately this has now changed. I have received money through Global X Change for one of the affiliate programs that I promote and have found them pretty good as the money is normally transferred directly into my bank account within 2-3 days and I have not had any problems with them.
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Obama WILL make changes... but they're not the changes we as a country need or should look forward to.[/quote:3kaa8sg4]
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- 1) if you find yourself saying yes without thinking about how it will affect your other priorities
2) you have over 10 projects/inventions going on at the same time and this seems normal to you
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