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Changing on the Job

By: Jennifer Garvey Berger
Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff
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Summary

Listen to people in every field and you'll hear a call for more sophisticated leadership - for leaders who can solve more complex problems than the human race has ever faced. But these leaders won't simply come to the fore; we have to "develop" them, and we must cultivate them as quickly as is humanly possible. Changing on the Job is a means to this end.

As opposed to showing readers how to play the role of a leader in a "paint by numbers" fashion, Changing on the Job builds on theories of adult growth and development to help readers become more thoughtful individuals, capable of leading in any scenario. Moving from the theoretical to the practical, and employing real-world examples, author Jennifer Garvey Berger offers a set of building blocks to help cultivate an agile workforce while improving performance.

Coaches, HR professionals, thoughtful leaders, and anyone who wants to flourish on the job will find this book a vital resource for developing their own capacities and those of the talent that they support.

The book is published by Stanford University Press.

©2012 Jennifer Garvey Berger (P)2013 Redwood Audiobooks
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"A significant contribution towards re-imagining how we go about developing leaders. Jennifer invites leaders and those of us engaged in developing leaders to be more precise in our support and to think anew about the role that organizational context plays. This book calls on us to become more capable, agile, and better aligned with the increasing complexity of a global economy, while showing us how to stitch together an approach to our work that is fit for this task." (Sally DeWitt Miller, Director, Leadership Development Group, Microsoft Corporation)
"People have been asking for years, 'Where can I go for a rich, practical, and incisive guide to the relationship between adult-developmental theory and coaching?' Now there is an answer. You are holding it, and when you start reading it, it will hold you." (Robert Kegan, Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, author of In Over Our Heads, and co-author of Immunity to Change)

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Interesting & enjoyable

Interesting to hear and gain insight to the theories of adult development. This was the first time I had taken a step back to look at development in this way. The book was a bit repetitive at times but interesting nonetheless. Narrator was clear, a little grating (for me) and became easier to listen to the more I got through it. Overall I feel my outlook has been expanded.

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Really helpful book but longer than it needs to be

The last two chapters are the most useful; the rest, where she's describing the different stages of adult development, could be described in a single chapter.

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