Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Schein : “The warning signs are never ‘cultural.’ I’ve heard the same tactic used in venture capital meetings. Even the best ideas will go nowhere if you don’t anticipate the potential resistance of others. Anticipating resistance can’t be an afterthought. In Hollywood pitch meetings, it’s called the ‘logline.’ Career Management.

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Advice Quinn Schein Resistance 272

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Edgar Schein, perhaps the most respected scholar on organizational culture, states that “… culture is the result of a complex group learning process.” Although debriefing begins at the very tactical or day-to-day operational level, the practice of debriefing should cascade upward in the organization.

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Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 64

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. As these processes prove effective, they coalesce and become habit. A hierarchical chain of command and extensive battle plans allowed the U.S.

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Decentralization Schein Tactics Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

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. At the risk of sounding like I''m diminishing the issue, it became "uncool," as Schein says, to be anti-gay.

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