An Everyone Culture
Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey · 2016
An Everyone Culture (2016) is a book by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey on Deliberately developmental organizations. Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey spent years inside Bridgewater, Decurion, and Next Jump, three companies built on the bet that growing people's minds and growing the business are the same job.
Most companies quietly pay for hidden weaknesses; these three pay attention to them instead, and outgrow their rivals for it.
Two of the ideas you’ll keep
The Clif summary of An Everyone Culture pulls out 8 insights. Here are the first two.
- Most workplaces charge a hidden tax: employees quietly work a 'second job' managing how they're seen, hiding weaknesses, downplaying mistakes, and covering confusion, which drains capability the organization never recovers.
- Adult development moves through three plateaus: the Socialized Mind (defined by others' expectations), the Self-Authoring Mind (has its own internal seat of judgment), and the rare Self-Transforming Mind (can hold and question multiple systems at once).
The other 6 — and the full 11-minute summary — are in the app.
What’s inside: 9 chapters
The whole summary runs about 11 minutes, read or listened to.
- The Hidden Second Job
- Three Plateaus of the Adult Mind
- What Makes an Organization Deliberately Developmental
- Bridgewater: Radical Transparency as Practice
- Decurion: The Practice of Presence
- Next Jump: Leadership as Parenting
- The Immunity Map
- The Costs and Risks of a DDO
- Building Your Own Developmental Practice
Finish An Everyone Culture tonight.
Read or listen to the full summary in about 11 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.
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