A Radical New Model for Unleashing Your Company's Potential In most organizations nearly
everyone is doing a second job no one is paying them fornamely covering their weaknesses
trying to look their best and managing other people's impressions of them. There may be no
greater waste of a company's resources. The ultimate cost: neither the organization nor its
people are able to realize their full potential. What if a company did everything in its power
to create a culture in which everyonenot just select high potentialscould overcome their own
internal barriers to change and use errors and vulnerabilities as prime opportunities for
personal and company growth? Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey (and their collaborators) have found
and studied such companiesDeliberately Developmental Organizations. A DDO is organized around
the simple but radical conviction that organizations will best prosper when they are more
deeply aligned with people's strongest motive which is to grow. This means going beyond
consigning people development to high-potential programs executive coaching or once-a-year
off-sites. It means fashioning an organizational culture in which support of people's
development is woven into the daily fabric of working life and the company's regular operations
daily routines and conversations. An Everyone Culture dives deep into the worlds of three
leading companies that embody this breakthrough approach. It reveals the design principles
concrete practices and underlying science at the heart of DDOsfrom their disciplined approach
to giving feedback to how they use meetings to the distinctive way that managers and leaders
define their roles. The authors then show readers how to build this developmental culture in
their own organizations. This book demonstrates a whole new way of being at work. It suggests
that the culture you create is your strategyand that the key to success is developing everyone.
