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Three Hard Lessons From September 11

Harvard Business Review

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. Often driven by desperation, commanders high up in the chain of command decentralized decision-making authority down to the lowest levels. Know what's different and act on it.