Edgar Schein Quotes

• The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening.

  Edgar Schein

  Leadership, Real, Creating

  "Organizational Culture and Leadership". Book by Edgar Schein, 1985.

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• Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.

  Edgar Schein

  Fashion, Taken, Self

  "Organizational Culture and Leadership: A Dynamic View". Book by Edgar Schein, 1985.

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• The only thing of real importance that leader do is to create and manage culture

  Edgar Schein

  Real, Leader, Culture

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• In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture.

  Edgar Schein

  Effort, Overcoming, Culture

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• Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.

  Edgar Schein

  Culture, Steps, Process

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• A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that have worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems.

  Edgar Schein

  Thinking, Groups, Patterns

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• We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.

  Edgar Schein

  Thinking, Able

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• Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

  Edgar Schein

  Culture, Care, Surface

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• I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

  Edgar Schein

  Roles, Defining, Term

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• The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them

  Edgar Schein

  Philosophy, Rights, People

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• Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged an identity to which the individual inevitably becomes strongly attached psychologically.

  Edgar Schein

  Commitment, Atheism, Identity

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