Our deepest desires can help us unlock lasting change, says a leading professor of organisational behaviour.
In her new book: The Possible Self A Leader’s Guide to Personal Development, Maja Djikic, from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, says tinkering around the edges, trying to tweak our behaviour, or change our mindset, won’t deliver true transformation.
Instead, Djikic invites people to engage their own Wheel of Change, by diving into the ‘five key parts of ourselves: Desires, Actions, Emotions, Thoughts, and Body’. Because when all are moving at the same time, and in the same direction, only then, says Professor Djikic, can ‘sustained change’ take place.
Getting to grips with the moving parts is critical though, and to help, the author presents readers with a “deftly articulated map and compass to the joys and difficulties of making changes, small and large,” says Mihnea C. Moldoveanu, the Marcel Desautels Professor of Integrative Thinking, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
More praise for the work by Professor Djikic, the executive director of the Self-Development Lab at the Rotman School, came from Harvard Professor of Psychology, Ellen J. Langer, who said the book provided “a fresh new approach to the age-old problem of self-change” and would be useful for “anyone interested in lifelong development.”
The Possible Self is published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc. Check out our book section for more recommendations.
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