You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 30, 2013

For example, many moons ago I was part of a team-building course in Toronto. It is part of a mental process that Edgar Schein refers to as ORJI in his book Process Consultation- Lessons for Managers and Consultants. O” stands for observation. Here’s how it works. We asked no questions of either the coordinators or each other.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

” The article reported that humble leaders “inspire close teamwork, rapid learning and high performance in their teams.” Edgar Schein, professor emeritus at MIT Sloan School of Management, and an expert on leadership and culture , once asked a group of his students what it means to be promoted to the rank of manager.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. 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?

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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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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 18, 2009

Many moons ago I was part of a team building course in Toronto. 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”

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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

APRIL 2, 2018

Alan Schein Photography/Getty Images. While the data science team that developed the predictive model may have done a solid job cleaning the training data, it can still be compromised by bad data going forward. Second, build plenty of time to execute data quality fundamentals into your overall project plan.

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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. Tell your team about your commitment and ask for their help. 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.

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