Edgar Schein Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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