Immunity To Change

The next chapter in part two is, “Cathy Can’t Contain Herself” and this chapter too highlights overcoming an individual’s immunity to change. Cathy’s immunity to change revolves around self-management and emotional self-regulation. In other words, Cathy was looking to better manage her emotional state as well as her expression of her emotions. The authors believe that to address one’s change challenge within the context of a group’s efforts to improve may provide the strongest source of motivation and support to successfully complete the work. I do not find Cathy’s immunity challenge with her emotions strange or uncommon because a lot of leaders cannot hide their emotions especially when the problem they are reacting to is mammoth. I use to …show more content…
This chapter explains how a team is put together for a new immediate venture and the challenges they experience with trust and communication. The challenges for the team involves the development of successful communication techniques as well as having the members of the team work through their individual immunities to change. Through this scenario, the leader learns how immunity to change works in both settings: individual as well as a team or group. Part two addresses individual as well as group immunities to change though the application of changing minds as well as behaviors to experience successful change. This book, like Ronald Heifetz’s book on adaptive leadership, is excellent for remedying leadership in the secular arena. Yet, I find it difficult to grasp the findings in this book and apply them in the spiritual arena although as I read I am desperately trying to see how to apply the information given to my context. My difficulty comes in the fact that in the secular arena people are getting a paycheck, therefore, a supervisor can demand or require that they fulfill their responsibilities whereas in the spiritual arena people are volunteering and therefore may not have a commitment to faithful, committed