You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 11, 2012

It is part of a mental process that Edgar Schein refers to as O.R.J.I. And, the reflectors, being completely overwhelmed by the noise and confusion registered what can only be described as insipid protests about making a plan first, an offering that, not surprisingly, fell on completely deaf ears. O” stands for observation.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 30, 2013

It is part of a mental process that Edgar Schein refers to as ORJI in his book Process Consultation- Lessons for Managers and Consultants. And, in thinking about it now, apart from doing just about everything wrong, we simply didn’t spend enough time in “O”. “O” O” stands for observation. Here’s how it works.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 25, 2019

Edgar Schein, “Culture are the assumptions we cannot see”. Management by Objective, incentive pay, business plans cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. A human being, a “you,” only exists in relationships. The Zulu greeting, “hello,” meaning, “I see you”. Hard to know what fish talk about, but you can be damn sure it isn’t water.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

” It even reported that one HR consulting firm is planning to introduce an assessment to identify personality traits that include “sincerity, modesty, fairness, truthfulness, and unpretentiousness,” inspired in part by what two psychology professors call the H Factor (“a combination of honesty and humility.”).

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

What good does it do to have members of an organization contribute to a project or planning effort and then have no connection to the outcome, no part in the post mortem? The creation of ‘wins’, however, presupposes an incremental process of planning in which tasks or projects are planned for and executed in relatively short periods of time.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

As Edgar Schein notes in this volume, leaders will need to effectively involve others and elicit participation “because tasks will be too complex and information too widely distributed for leaders to solve problems on their own.” Pick one to three key areas for improvement and develop an action plan for desired change.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

.” Put simply, you can’t be an effective leader in business, politics, or society unless you encourage those around you to speak their minds, to bring attention to hypocrisy and misbehavior, and to be as direct and strong-willed in their evaluations of you as you are in your strategies and plans for them.

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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. And, in thinking about it now, apart from doing just about everything wrong, we simply didn’t spend enough time in “O”. “O” O” stands for observation. Here’s how it works. So, how do you stay in “O”?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

In his book Helping , former MIT professor Edgar Schein identifies different modes of inquiry that we employ when we’re offering help, and they map particularly well to coaching conversations. The initial process of information gathering I described above is what Schein calls “pure inquiry.” You and Your Team.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

In all, two dozen scholars, executives, and management advisors gave us their plans, along with a sense of why they've chosen certain projects and how they will go about doing them. Are there patterns among them?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

This is how MIT's Edgar Schein defines an organization's culture, as the set of habits that an organization has developed for accomplishing its repeated tasks. A hierarchical chain of command and extensive battle plans allowed the U.S. The complex plans that came down the chain of command often only exacerbated the problems.

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CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Organizational Culture and Leadership by Edgar Schein. The senior staff would read a book together and for the next month we were off in a new direction for strategic planning, moving the elephant, or finding wildly important goals. Six Pixels of Separation by Mitch Joel. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Alan Schein Photography/Getty Images. Second, build plenty of time to execute data quality fundamentals into your overall project plan. Poor data quality is enemy number one to the widespread, profitable use of machine learning.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Commit to being better at candor and feedback and share a plan to get there. When a culture is known for its niceness, people have pride in it and loyalty to it; the niceness is part of what attracted them to the organization and what retains them. They enjoy the culture, and are typically reluctant to try anything that may jeopardize it.

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