Ed Schein

How well do you give and receive help? MIT Professor of Management Emeritus Ed Schein says how you answer that question could make or break your leadership career.

In Chequed’s latest HR Thought Leader interview, Dr. Schein explains why he believes that a leader’s ability to foster the right environment for offering and taking help—from subordinates and from peers—is the key to success in the organization of the future.

Perhaps the world’s foremost expert on organizational psychology, organizational culture and leadership, Dr. Schein notes the increasing pace of change and complexity in business and how leaders aren’t the only ones with the answers anymore.

 Click the player below to hear the interview, and you’ll learn:

• Why, in the future, subordinates will generally know more than leaders
• Why the CEO will start relying more on HR
• One thing you can do to position HR as a more consultative function

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You may also be interested in a picking up a copy of Dr. Schein’s book, Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help, which is available on Amazon.

About Dr. Edgar H. Schein

Edgar Schein investigates organizational culture, process consultation, the research process, career dynamics, and organization learning and change. In Career Anchors, 3d Ed (Wiley, 2006)), he shows how individuals can diagnose their own career needs and managers can diagnose the future of jobs. His research on culture shows how national, organizational and occupational cultures influence organizational performance (Organizational Culture and Leadership, 4th Ed, 2010). How consultants work on problems in human systems and the dynamics of the helping process are analyzed in Process Consultation Revisited (1999) and Helping (2009). Schein has done two cultural case studies– Strategic Pragmatism: The Culture of Singapore’s Economic Development Board (MIT Press, 1996), and DEC is Dead; Long Live DEC (Berett-Kohler, 2003), His Corporate Culture Survival Guide, 2d Ed (Jossey-Bass, 2009) tells managers how to deal with culture issue in their organizations.

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