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Understanding the "identity mindtrap": Personal growth for the C-suite | McKinsey

Understanding the "identity mindtrap": Personal growth for the C-suite | McKinsey | Adaptive Leadership and Cultures | Scoop.it
If you’re shackled to who you are now, you can’t reach for who you might become next. You're stuck in the identity mindtrap.
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An exploration of stages of adult development, key leadership mind traps and questions that can support C-Suite (and other leaders) to grow. 

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Putting the development back in leadership development

Too often we think that changing leaders is about putting things into the leader’s practice—new skills, new understandings, new behaviors. The piece we often miss is that for leaders to be transformational, they also need to be transforming themselves. But how?

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Leadership development often focuses on technical (knowledge, skills, tools) rather than adaptive (mindsets, fears, assumptions, stages of adult development) needs. Vertical development focuses on unlocking the potential for adaptive leaders.

 

Jennifer's book is easy to read and a valuable resource. 

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Adult Development Map

Jennifer describes the stages of Adult Development, from the magical mind of the child through to the transformational stage. For a full exploration o
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Jennifer Garvey Berger describes stages of adult development. I've been exploring this as part of building my own capacity for growth and to support my role as a practitioner. My head explodes when I think about helping build organisational capacity (i.e. evolving from compliant dependence to an achievement culture), but then recognising that 60% of the people I'm working with are socialised....

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