Edgar Schein

The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture, it…

— Edgar Schein

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

— Edgar Schein

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

— Edgar Schein

Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged…

— Edgar Schein

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

— Edgar Schein

Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and…

— Edgar Schein

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

— Edgar Schein

A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems…

— Edgar Schein

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

— Edgar Schein

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

— Edgar Schein