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Humble Leadership

Leading Blog

Edgar Schein and Peter Schein call this Level 1 based leadership. What they advocate in Humble Leadership is moving to and developing an organizational culture based on Level 2 relationships. Not to mention, it’s just easier to avoid the hard work of developing trust and openness with another person or team.

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Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling

Kevin Eikenberry

Schein When one of my favorite management thinkers writes a new book, I am always curious – and Edgar Schein is on that short list for me. His book Process Consultation: Its Role in Organizational Development, played a big role in my development as a consultant, and his recent book Helping: How […].

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Edgar Schein on Dialogue #teams #coaching

Management Craft

I love this quote from an Edgar Schein (father of modern org culture theory and practice) piece from 1993 called, On Dialogue, Culture, and Organizational Learning from Organizational Dynamics , 22 (2), 40-51. You can download a reprint from the Society of Organizational Learning here.

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Resistance to Change. Fear of Temporary Incompetence

Mike Cardus

It was day 1 of an 8 month Exponent Leadership-Development program with 12 people from different areas of the company. The same group of managers who were enthusiastic about management development and applied leadership to the organization, turned from cooperators to resistors in 3 days! Edgar Schein. Photo Credit.

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The Senior Leader’s Checklist for Shaping Company Culture

Next Level Blog

There are lots of systems and processes in organizations (e.g., the performance management process I alluded to in the last point) that can either be deployed to systematically shape the desired culture or just left to their own devices. Every leader in your organization needs to be accountable for role modeling the culture.

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Make Failure and Learning an Objective :: Resistance to Change

Mike Cardus

During the transition process, you do not feel competent because you have given up the old way and have not yet mastered the new one. Edgar Schein. If the company and people accept this as a path to personal mastery , the temporary incompetence is accepted as part of the process and the resistance to change can be lessened.

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Resistance to Change. Fear of Punishment for Incompetence

Mike Cardus

Edgar Schein. Develop a shared language of the change and what "done" looks like; Step 2. Lower learning anxiety by offering coaching, development, informal trainings and almost imperceptible shifts towards the change. Adjust the processes as needed – while staying within the change desired. Edwards Deming.