Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 16, 2018

The following is an excerpt from Humble Leadership:The Power of Relationships, Openness and Trust by Ed & Peter Schein. It is becoming obvious that keeping pace in this world will require teamwork and collaboration of all sorts based on the higher levels of trust and openness created by more personalized relationships.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

Perhaps that’s why listening, questioning, and moving others to act emerged as strong themes in the best business books offering managerial self-help this year, with the latest volumes from veteran authors Edgar H. Schein and Daniel H. In Schein’s view, there are two essential problems. Pink being the standouts.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2017

We’re not going to deal with all the approaches in this post – that would require a book in itself! 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.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

In the “old days,” a person was hired into a position, learned the job, and – usually because of some form of functional proficiency – received a promotion into management. Then, as a manager, this same person could tell a few people what to do. The world is changing too rapidly.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 18, 2009

It is part of a mental process that Edgar Schein refers to as ORJI in his book Process Consultation- Lessons for Managers and Consultants. Leaders who learn to do this consistently make better decisions and open their mind to new solutions they would never have discovered by reacting too fast. O” stands for observation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Coaching is far from an exact science, and all leaders have to develop their own style, but we can break down the process into practices that any manager will need to explore and understand. Coaching begins by creating space to be filled by the employee, and typically you start this process by asking an open-ended question.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

The history of the gay rights movement would take a book (or several ) to recount. As Tina Rosenberg notes in her book, Join the Club , successful social movements in the digital age share tactics that make them popular and akin to "clubs" that people want to join. There were fewer rainbow flags and more American flags.

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