Summary: people who have an unacknowledged competing commitment end up sabotaging themselves. The proposed solution is to explicate this hidden reason for inaction and hopefully replace it with a more productive one.

My opinion: it is probably a good approach when the diagnosis is correct, however, the proposed reason for akrasia is likely just one of many possibilities, yet the article makes is sound like it's almost always the one.

For practical use the best exposition is his book "Right Weight Right Mind". Ostensibly this is about weight loss but it applies to almost any change process. A single data point is that it seems to have solved my weight control problem when nothing else has worked so well over a 25 year struggle. What impresses me is the ease with which I am losing weight whereas before it was a gritted teeth tough struggle.

I am not applying it to other things such as akrasia - specifically getting in 4 hours of really hard work each and every day (which I think is the human limit).

Summary here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_hpownP1A4PS0JkMzZjelQzUzA/view?usp=sharing

Of course it is not an answer to every problem but often when change proves impossible there are other competing commitments and Kegan's process is a really good way to uncover and deal with these.

This comes out of his work on personal growth and development which I think is also something special. Summary here and some links

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_hpownP1A4PdERFVXJDVE5SRnc/view?usp=sharing .