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A Corporate Climate of Mutual Help

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an exceptionally informative interview of Edgar Schein by Art Kleiner and Rutger von Post for strategy+business magazine (January 2011) published by Booz & Company.

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What Tops Your 2011 Agenda?

Harvard Business Review

We put a call out to some of our favorite management thinkers and asked what challenges they were going to take on next — and what an inspiring set of projects it yielded. The first, we will admit, is a self-inflicted pattern: Several of our thinkers are setting their sights on aspects of managing people.

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. John Kotter, the renowned scholar on change management, suggests that successful change requires management to create opportunities for ‘short term wins,’ thereby repetitively reinforcing positive steps along the path to change. But how is this done?