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Peter Senge on the Creation of a Post-Industrial Theory and Practice of Education

Deming Institute

Edgar Schein, “Culture are the assumptions we cannot see”. Dr. Deming used to have a very simple way of saying this…our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. Quote from Dr. Deming on the back jacket of first printing of The Fifth Discipline; “Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people.

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It’s About What You Add to the Interaction

Lead Change Blog

In his book Humble Inquiry , Edgar Schein (2013) makes the argument that a good relationship is based on your inquisitiveness and your ability to ask the right questions, rather than how much information you give the other. The only way they know to get attention is to display their victim status and hope others will feel sorry for them.

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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. Because it just did.)

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