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stine_0's review
informative
slow-paced
2.0
One Sentence Review: It has a great premise, but starts to feel kinda cult-ish.
rbogue's review
5.0
A friend, mentor, and manager of mine once relayed a conversation that he had with the HR manager at our company. The HR manager said that you couldn’t change the stripes on a tiger but – in a sense – this was exactly what my friend was trying to do. He wasn’t content with people where they were. He wanted people to grow and change and become the best possible versions of themselves, even if it was painful, as it often was. He was ahead of his time in trying to carve out his corner of the larger organization and make it deliberately developmental for every team member.
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clairjoyance's review
5.0
An absolutely inspiring game changer for the world of business and the world of personal development. A must-read for anyone who works, lives, and breathes.
lraeskat's review
5.0
Working in the first L&D role at a small/medium company within the hospitality industry, I found this book to be really helpful. Would recommend!
tortello_alla_zucca's review
informative
slow-paced
2.0
A four-star book that dragged on a little bit too long.
After being a little taken off by the number of acronyms thrown at the reader in the first pages, I found myself liking the book more and more – at first. The authors' intriguing ideas and the delivery make for an engaging read with lessons as relevant for one’s professional life as they are in their personal life.
That being said, the book quickly loses focus, and it started to feel more and more like I was reading the same concept, often told with identical words. Both notions and full-on sentences are repeated, sometimes verbatim, and not always with reason. The most egregious example is a quote almost six lines long that appears twice in both the first and the second chapter.
All in all, I think that the book would have benefitted greatly by being a great deal shorter and therefore more concise because I do not think it warrants the almost 300 pages my copy had.
After being a little taken off by the number of acronyms thrown at the reader in the first pages, I found myself liking the book more and more – at first. The authors' intriguing ideas and the delivery make for an engaging read with lessons as relevant for one’s professional life as they are in their personal life.
That being said, the book quickly loses focus, and it started to feel more and more like I was reading the same concept, often told with identical words. Both notions and full-on sentences are repeated, sometimes verbatim, and not always with reason. The most egregious example is a quote almost six lines long that appears twice in both the first and the second chapter.
All in all, I think that the book would have benefitted greatly by being a great deal shorter and therefore more concise because I do not think it warrants the almost 300 pages my copy had.
bobbypowers's review
4.0
See my full review of this book: https://businessbookreviewer.com/2018/07/31/review-an-everyone-culture/
alex_ellermann's review
4.0
***IF YOU ARE A NAVAL OFFICER, YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK***
This is the foundational book for the Navy Leader Development Framework. This book is why the CNO wants to turn the Navy into a deliberately developmental organization. Maybe this kind of thing is up your alley; maybe it isn't. Regardless, it's your duty to read it.
Okay, for everyone else: 'An Everyone Culture' advocates for a new model of organizational professional development rooted in the personal development of each member of that organization and the group development of teams within that organization. As a reading experience, it's akin to eating one's vegetables: authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey have a dry, businesslike writing style - so dry, in fact, that it reminded me of a very dry leadership book I read last year. The title? 'Immunity to Change,' by (You guessed it!) Kegan and Laskow Lahey. Still, you've gotta eat your vegetables.
The real question is, do their ideas work? I'm not sure: to the best of my knowledge, they haven't been adopted widely enough to gather a statistically significant sample. Sure, the authors profile several successful companies built on ideas akin to theirs, but it's hard to say whether those companies succeeded because of or in spite of those ideas. After all, so many business and leadership books have presented businesses for emulation that are now either bankrupt or have receded back to their industry mean. Still, their ideas resonate with me. My goal as a leader is to make my people, and my organization, so good at the nuts and bolts of our trade that our systems are smooth and our basic processes seem to "just happen." Once we've done that, we can move away from reactivity and toward proactivity: shaping our environment and ourselves to be of best service to our nation and Navy. 'An Everyone Culture' gave me some new tools and some different approaches that I can use in pursuit of these goals, and I think it was a book well worth reading.
This is the foundational book for the Navy Leader Development Framework. This book is why the CNO wants to turn the Navy into a deliberately developmental organization. Maybe this kind of thing is up your alley; maybe it isn't. Regardless, it's your duty to read it.
Okay, for everyone else: 'An Everyone Culture' advocates for a new model of organizational professional development rooted in the personal development of each member of that organization and the group development of teams within that organization. As a reading experience, it's akin to eating one's vegetables: authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey have a dry, businesslike writing style - so dry, in fact, that it reminded me of a very dry leadership book I read last year. The title? 'Immunity to Change,' by (You guessed it!) Kegan and Laskow Lahey. Still, you've gotta eat your vegetables.
The real question is, do their ideas work? I'm not sure: to the best of my knowledge, they haven't been adopted widely enough to gather a statistically significant sample. Sure, the authors profile several successful companies built on ideas akin to theirs, but it's hard to say whether those companies succeeded because of or in spite of those ideas. After all, so many business and leadership books have presented businesses for emulation that are now either bankrupt or have receded back to their industry mean. Still, their ideas resonate with me. My goal as a leader is to make my people, and my organization, so good at the nuts and bolts of our trade that our systems are smooth and our basic processes seem to "just happen." Once we've done that, we can move away from reactivity and toward proactivity: shaping our environment and ourselves to be of best service to our nation and Navy. 'An Everyone Culture' gave me some new tools and some different approaches that I can use in pursuit of these goals, and I think it was a book well worth reading.
tpanik's review
3.0
An in-depth exploration of creating a Deliberately Developmental Organization. This practice takes personal vulnerability and commitment from all levels of a company. Criticism is honest, feedback is constant, and personal growth is linked to company growth. It's radical, because few are currently embracing it.
dianelaw's review
3.0
I thought that this book would be right up my street for what I needed for work. I was disappointed. There are some good ideas but it takes a lot of wading through treacle to get to them.
I also felt that the three companies used as examples were too extreme to be relatable.
I also felt that the three companies used as examples were too extreme to be relatable.
sergio's review against another edition
5.0
L’idea che esistano delle organizzazioni che intenzionalmente si occupano di sviluppo delle persone è affascinante. Illustrata con casi concreti e un’ampia ricerca psicologica. Un libro che fa pensare a una vera alternativa organizzativa.