How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work Quotes

“Even small changes in our Big Assumptions can have big implications for permanently altering our once-captivating equilibrium.”
― Robert Kegan, How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation

“But people only complain about something because they are committed to the value or importance of something else.”
― Robert Kegan, How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation

“We may feel less a part of a cohesive society today not so much because of all the outrageous behavior we see reported in our media but because we are deprived of an accompanying sense of collective offense in response to the outrageous behavior.”
― Robert Kegan, How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation

“We are already the most over informed, under reflective people in a history of civilisation. We already have a 24h news cycle, internet newspapers and continuous information about day to day unfolding of civic proceedings. Better informed people are not necessarily better educated people.”
― Robert Kegan, How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation