CHAPTER 2
How Humans Change: Conditioning, Identity, and Self-Generation
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
The beliefs that for a time feel so comfortable that we may not be fully aware of them somehow reach the limits of their effectiveness for us and begin to get in our way. . . . Development is . . . always a matter of transcending some earlier way of knowing and including it in a newer, more complex way of knowing.
Bill Drath and Ellen Van Velsor
THE WORLD NEEDS LEADERS WHO ARE RESILIENT, optimistic, resourceful, authentic, and committed. As leaders and coaches, it is our business to understand what it takes to develop these capacities, first in ourselves and then in others whom we propose to develop ...