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Now consider the drag or cap on personal development we create by hiding our weaknesses rather than having a regular opportunity to overcome them. In an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world, organizations naturally need to expect more, and not less, of themselves and the people who work for them.

But our familiar organizational design fails to match that need. How did we come to this observation about everyone in the ordinary organization doing a second job? Was it by staring hard at the ordinary organization? Normal began to look strange to us only after we stared hard at organizations where no one is doing the second job. These organizations include Decurion, a real estate company that owns the ArcLight Hollywood movie theater; Next Jump, an e-commerce tech company; and hedge-fund investor Bridgewater.

Different as these companies are, they share a striking commonality: They have created a safe enough and demanding enough culture that everyone comes out of hiding. This is what we call the deliberately developmental organization: the DDO. But in each of the DDOs we studied, we saw a seamless integration of two pursuits as if they were a single goal: business excellence and the growth of people into more capable versions of themselves through the work of the business.

Each company has its own approach, but, interestingly, what each emphasizes can be found in the others as well. Engage Unreached. Language Learning. Leader Resources. Member Care. Partner Development. Personal Growth.

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Disclosing new worlds? The philosopher Martin Heidegger argued that the truthful life was at risk of being lost in Western technological culture in the name of increasing control, efficiency, and agility.

As the risk is … Expand. Who Constructs the Path We Take? With a firm determination, the CEO of a small family owned company, operating in a stagnating market, starts to work to bring in change. Finding the situation to be tough to manage, CEO suggests … Expand.

It may sound shocking. But imagine if, at the same time, your colleagues were excited to celebrate your personal accomplishments, your supervisor was eager to make your development one of her top priorities, your organization's leaders prioritized trust and held themselves to the same standards as others, and that everyone in your workplace was fully committed to the success of both the company and each other?

And as the authors of An Everyone Culture found, these companies appear to have charted a new and distinctive path to success, one that lays out a new definition of what it means to be at work.

The benefits for the three deliberately developmental organizations DDOs the book profiles are staggering: increased profitability, improved employee retention, better communication, reductions in employee downtime, less interdepartmental strife, and faster solutions to tough problems, such as how to anticipate crises, create valuable leadership, and realize future possibilities — to name a few.

These companies offer a model for the rest of us — for organizations and schools seeking to grow, for leaders wanting to make a cultural change, and even for individual employees who may feel stuck, say Lisa Laskow Lahey and Robert Kegan , who wrote An Everyone Culture with fellow Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty Matthew L.

Miller and Deborah Helsing and with organizational consultant Andy Fleming. In their analysis of these DDOs, the authors demonstrate to other organizations how they, too, can maximize their outcomes by helping employees overcome personal challenges and amplify their potential. A key finding: Development does not happen on its own.

Engrained practices — or specific routines that emphasize growth in every aspect of the workday — are key to ensuring that employees will keep growing. Get Usable Knowledge — Delivered Our free monthly newsletter sends you tips, tools, and ideas from research and practice leaders at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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