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UNLEARNING!

Leading Change Without Resistance

UNLEARNING! Leading Change Without Resistance begins with a deceptively simple proposition: people do not necessarily resist change; they resist being changed. Part case study, part manual, the book challenges one of the most persistent assumptions about organizational change and, through a five-step practice, explores what becomes possible when people are invited back into the intelligence of change rather than treated as obstacles to it.

UNLEARNING! Leading Change Without Resistance asks a different question about organizational change.

Rather than beginning with the assumption that people resist change, the book examines what happens when change is imposed on people rather than developed with access to their experience, judgment, and intelligence.

Christine Kahane with Doug Krug introduces the UNLearning Factor, a five-step practice designed to help individuals and organizations question familiar assumptions, recover information that existing ways of working may have obscured, and create greater participation in what comes next.

The book represents an earlier stage in the body of inquiry that now informs the Institute for UNLearning and the development of Coherence. Its central questions remain active: What do people know that the system has stopped hearing? What becomes possible when experience can alter what an organization is able to see? And how can change occur without requiring people to surrender authorship of the realities they inhabit?

Published by Falkirk Press, UNLEARNING! remains part of the intellectual lineage from which the Institute’s current work continues to develop.

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About this edition

First published by Falkirk Press in 2024, this First Edition presents the UNLearning Factor as a five-step practice for bringing participation, judgment, and human intelligence into the work of organizational change.

Series
The UNLearning Series
Publisher
Falkirk Press
Edition
First Edition
Originally published
2024
Language
English
Length
244 pages
Print ISBN
979-8-9893164-0-3
eBook ISBN
979-8-9893164-1-0
Audio ISBN
979-8-9893164-2-7
Library of Congress
2023920122
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