Bob Kegan and Lisa Lahey’s Immunity to Change process (which is more fully described in their book of the same name, and in their first book How the Way You Talk Can Change the Way You Work). You can find that post here. The follow up to their process—the question of what do you do after you’ve discovered your Big Assumption is explored in this post,
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How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential
Andrew Gerkens's insight:
Immunity To Change is a wonderful book that has really challenged me to approach my work differently. Technical solutions only get us so far. If we really want to support performance, then we need to tackle adaptive challenges. I'm exploring how to use the collective immunity to change process to help uncover the barriers to team performance. Here is a link to the HBR article on the same topic - https://hbr.org/2001/11/the-real-reason-people-wont-change
In this 1 hour, 15 minute You Tube Video, Lisa Lahey (one of the researchers/authors) explains the challenge of real change and the immunity to change - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6reQY1MIBA8 
Andrew Gerkens's curator insight,
March 30, 2017 8:32 PM
Immunity To Change is a wonderful book that has really challenged me to approach my work differently. Technical solutions only get us so far. If we really want to support performance, then we need to tackle adaptive challenges. I'm exploring how to use the collective immunity to change process to help uncover the barriers to team performance. Here is a link to the HBR article on the same topic - https://hbr.org/2001/11/the-real-reason-people-wont-change
In this 1 hour, 15 minute You Tube Video, Lisa Lahey (one of the researchers/authors) explains the challenge of real change and the immunity to change - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6reQY1MIBA8
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Creating the immunity map is a powerful and enlightening process, but it is only the start. The real work comes in testing your big assumptions - creating experiments that allow you to test whether your assumptions are valid and your immune system is right in protecting you from realising your fears, OR more than likely, your assumptions are not valid and your immune system is limiting and preventing you from realising/unlocking your potential.
I'm working on this now and it is tough. I've spent decades embedding these behaviours, so unpacking them and then testing them is not easy. I'm naturally drawn to maintaining the status quo, so I have to actively challenge myself to test, to observe, to reflect, to understand and most difficult for me, accept the evidence.
Would I stop. No bloody way. This is the discomfort required for real growth.