Book 8: Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization

I think that all of us sometimes want to change their behavior, but even after the strong desire and real commitment we fail in achieving it. This book gives us an explanation as to why it happens, why we find it so hard. It brings us the instruments we need to get out of the forces of inertia and transform our life and our work. It shows how the core problems of resistance to change stem from the critical gaps between what is required and a leader's own level of development. It may help leaders understand the commitment to change and how to put it into practice and helps to understand their own blockages and get them more successfully on their path of change. They try to show that individuals, groups and organizations are not blocked by fears for change but more by existing, hidden mindsets (attitudes). And, that most have not, yet, found ways to understand these mindsets and so have not learned to get rid of them. Instead of focusing on simply technical learning, i.e. developing new skills, they claim that the development of adaptive learning should be mastered too, i.e. human capacity to learn and grow which requires rationality and emotion. And I liked very much an expression they used “there is no expiration date in your ability to grow”. It means that people can develop themselves continuously and at any age, they are able, they have the capability to do so and this growth is not related to the age, that is only locked in our mindsets. In other words, mindsets must be unlocked and transformed towards shared mindsets. Firstly, we should understand deeply rooted and hidden mindsets that create a natural but enforcing immunity to change, because as they say “what is not understood cannot be changed”.