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The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities offers a
comprehensive guide to the current state of scholarship about men,
masculinities, and gender around the world. The Encyclopedia's
coverage is comprehensive across three dimensions: areas of
personal and social life, academic disciplines, and cultural and
historical contexts and formations. The Encyclopedia: examines
every area of men's personal and social lives as shaped by gender
covers masculinity politics, the men's groups and movements that
have tried to change men's roles presents entries on working with
particular groups of boys or men, from male patients to men in
prison incorporates cross-disciplinary perspectives on and
examinations of men, gender and gender relations gives
comprehensive coverage of diverse cultural and historical
formations of masculinity and the bodies of scholarship that have
documented them. The Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities is
composed of over 350 free-standing entries written from their
individual perspectives by eminent scholars in their fields.
Entries are organized alphabetically for general ease of access but
also listed thematically at the front of the encyclopedia, for the
convenience of readers with specific areas of interest.
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 for—namely, 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 everyone—not just select “high potentials”—could 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 companies—Deliberately 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 DDOs—from 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 strategy—and that the key to success is developing everyone.
The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities offers a
comprehensive guide to the current state of scholarship about men,
masculinities, and gender around the world. The Encyclopedia's
coverage is comprehensive across three dimensions: areas of
personal and social life, academic disciplines, and cultural and
historical contexts and formations. The Encyclopedia: examines
every area of men's personal and social lives as shaped by gender
covers masculinity politics, the men's groups and movements that
have tried to change men's roles presents entries on working with
particular groups of boys or men, from male patients to men in
prison incorporates cross-disciplinary perspectives on and
examinations of men, gender and gender relations gives
comprehensive coverage of diverse cultural and historical
formations of masculinity and the bodies of scholarship that have
documented them. The Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities is
composed of over 350 free-standing entries written from their
individual perspectives by eminent scholars in their fields.
Entries are organized alphabetically for general ease of access but
also listed thematically at the front of the encyclopedia, for the
convenience of readers with specific areas of interest.
A recent study showed that when doctors tell heart patients they
will die if they don't change their habits, only one in seven will
be able to follow through successfully. Desire and motivation
aren't enough: even when it's literally a matter of life or death,
the ability to change remains maddeningly elusive. Given that the
status quo is so potent, how can we change ourselves and our
organizations? In Immunity to Change, authors Robert Kegan and Lisa
Lahey show how our individual beliefs--along with the collective
mind-sets in our organizations--combine to create a natural but
powerful immunity to change. By revealing how this mechanism holds
us back, Kegan and Lahey give us the keys to unlock our potential
and finally move forward. And by pinpointing and uprooting our own
immunities to change, we can bring our organizations forward with
us. This persuasive and practical book, filled with hands-on
diagnostics and compelling case studies, delivers the tools you
need to overcome the forces of inertia and transform your life and
your work.
If contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and
expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would
anyone graduate? In the spirit of a sympathetic teacher, Robert
Kegan guides us through this tricky curriculum, assessing the fit
between its complex demands and our mental capacities, and showing
what happens when we find ourselves, as we so often do, in over our
heads. In this dazzling intellectual tour, he completely
reintroduces us to the psychological landscape of our private and
public lives. A decade ago in The Evolving Self, Kegan presented a
dynamic view of the development of human consciousness. Here he
applies this widely acclaimed theory to the mental complexity of
adulthood. As parents and partners, employees and bosses, citizens
and leaders, we constantly confront a bewildering array of
expectations, prescriptions, claims, and demands, as well as an
equally confusing assortment of expert opinions that tell us what
each of these roles entails. Surveying the disparate expert
"literatures," which normally take no account of each other, Kegan
brings them together to reveal, for the first time, what these many
demands have in common. Our frequent frustration in trying to meet
these complex and often conflicting claims results, he shows us,
from a mismatch between the way we ordinarily know the world and
the way we are unwittingly expected to understand it. In Over Our
Heads provides us entirely fresh perspectives on a number of
cultural controversies-the "abstinence vs. safe sex" debate, the
diversity movement, communication across genders, the meaning of
postmodernism. What emerges in these pages is a theory of evolving
ways of knowing that allows us to view adult development much as we
view child development, as an open-ended process born of the
dynamic interaction of cultural demands and emerging mental
capabilities. If our culture is to be a good "school," as Kegan
suggests, it must offer, along with a challenging curriculum, the
guidance and support that we clearly need to master this course-a
need that this lucid and richly argued book begins to meet.
"The Evolving Self" focuses upon the most basic and universal of
psychological problems--the individual's effort to make sense of
experience, to make meaning of life. According to Robert Kegan,
meaning-making is a lifelong activity that begins in earliest
infancy and continues to evolve through a series of stages
encompassing childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The Evolving
Self describes this process of evolution in rich and human detail,
concentrating especially on the internal experience of growth and
transition, its costs and disruptions as well as its triumphs.
At the heart of our meaning-making activity, the book suggests,
is the drawing and redrawing of the distinction between "self" and
"other," Using Piagetian theory in a creative new way to make sense
of how we make sense of ourselves, Kegan shows that each
meaning-making stage is a new solution to the lifelong tension
between the universal human yearning to be connected, attached, and
included, on the one hand, and to be distinct, independent, and
autonomous on the other. "The Evolving Self" is the story of our
continuing negotiation of this tension. It is a book that is
theoretically daring enough to propose a reinterpretation of the
Oedipus complex and clinically concerned enough to suggest a
variety of fresh new ways to treat those psychological complaints
that commonly arise in the course of development.
Kegan is an irrepressible storyteller, an impassioned opponent
of the health-and-illness approach to psychological distress, and a
sturdy builder of psychological theory. His is an original and
distinctive new voice in the growing discussion of human
development across the life span.
Why is the gap so great between our hopes, our intentions, even our decisions-and what we are actually able to bring about? Even when we are able to make important changes-in our own lives or the groups we lead at work-why are the changes are so frequently short-lived and we are soon back to business as usual? What can we do to transform this troubling reality? In this intensely practical book, Harvard psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey take us on a carefully guided journey designed to help us answer these very questions. And not just generally, or in the abstract. They help each of us arrive at our own particular answers that can solve the puzzling gap between what we intend and what we are able to accomplish. How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work provides you with the tools to create a powerful new build-it-yourself mental technology.
The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic
writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct
from other film stars has rarely been addressed. This collection
explores the processes through which film stars/actors become
associated with the cult label, from Bill Murray to Ruth Gordon and
Ingrid Pitt.
The term "cult film star" has been employed, and used as a
common-sense term, in publicity and popular journalistic writing
for at least the last twenty-five years. However, what makes cult
film stars or actors distinct or different from other film stars
has rarely been addressed, with the cult star label often being
attributed to particular stars or actors in an imprecise way. This
edited collection provides a much-needed overview of the variety of
processes through which film stars and actors become associated
with the cult label. It brings together chapters from an
international group of scholars which focus on a wide range of cult
stars and actors, from Montgomery Clift and Bill Murray to Ruth
Gordon and Ingrid Pitt. The collection makes important, previously
under-explored, connections between two key disciplines within film
and media studies: stardom/celebrity studies and cult film studies.
Released in 1979, Ridley Scott's Alien has come to be regarded as a
classic film, and has been widely written about. But how have
audiences engaged with it? This book presents the - sometimes very
surprising - results of a major audience research project,
exploring how people remember and continue to engage with the film.
Why is there so much talk of a "crisis" of masculinity? How have
ideas of manhood been transformed by feminism? Does feminism hold
the key to the development of more egalitarian forms of
masculinity? Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory addresses
central questions about the analysis and construction of
masculinity in contemporary society. The volume examines the ways
male privilege and power are constituted and represented and
explores the effect of such constructions on both men and women.
With subjects ranging from Robert Bly's Iron John to Tom Hank's
"niceness," this collection overturns old paradigms about identity,
victimization, and dominant and alternative forms of masculinity to
advance new dialogues between masculinity studies and feminist
theory. Looking particularly at literature, film, and classroom
practices, Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory links the
analysis of masculinities with feminism's ethical and political
agenda for the future. Its authors share a conviction that such a
link not only reveals the persistence, now more subtle and varied,
of male entitlement but also promises to create an enriched and
reinvigorated feminism for a new century. Why is there so much talk
of a "crisis" of masculinity? How have ideas of manhood been
transformed by feminism? Does feminism hold the key to the
development of more egalitarian forms of masculinity? Masculinity
Studies and Feminist Theory addresses central questions about the
analysis and construction of masculinity in contemporary society.
The volume examines the ways male privilege and power are
constituted and represented and explores the effect of such
constructions on both men and women. With subjects ranging from
Robert Bly's Iron John to Tom Hank's "niceness," this collection
overturns old paradigms about identity, victimization, and dominant
and alternative forms of masculinity to advance new dialogues
between masculinity studies and feminist theory. Looking
particularly at literature, film, and classroom practices,
Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory links the analysis of
masculinities with feminism's ethical and political agenda for the
future. Its authors share a conviction that such a link not only
reveals the persistence, now more subtle and varied, of male
entitlement but also promises to create an enriched and
reinvigorated feminism for a new century.
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