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Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your OrganizationBook

by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey

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Ken Norton
Executive coach for product leaders; previously a product partner at GV and a product manager at Google.
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. Understanding how we grow and develop will help you become a better leader and a more empathetic colleague. More accessible than his academic work, this book also provides a framework for understanding underlying beliefs and motivations that might be holding you back.

From “Best Books for Product Managers [2026]”, his standing list, introduced as “the 44 books I’d consider essential to any PM’s bookshelf”. Every book links through amzn.to and a Bookshop.org affiliate id (/a/83161/).

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