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Humble Leadership

Leading Blog

We tend to fall back on transactional relationships and rule-based leadership. 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. But it comes at a cost.

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The Flow of Organizational Culture

Lead Change Blog

His book presents a new approach to organizational culture based on the ontologies of process metaphysics, complexity theory, and social constructionism. Jim MacQueen, the author of The Flow of Organizational Culture , shares how new thinking and theory can help organizational leaders to navigate to a stronger organizational culture.

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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 […]. By Edgar H.

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New Module! The Art of Helping by Edgar Schein

Coaching Ourselves

We are very excited to present this brand new module by CoachingOurselves’ author Edgar Schein! This topic guides you through the pitfalls of the helping process. Practice an inquiry process to learn how best to help. Edgar Schein, Peter Schein, and Jeremiah Lee. Fireside chat w. The post New Module!

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The Senior Leader’s Checklist for Shaping Company Culture

Next Level Blog

The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership. And once you picked one, the work of leadership was to align the culture with the chosen path. You couldn’t have two or three, you had to pick one.

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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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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.