Edgar H. Schein is chairman and cofounder of the Organizational
Culture and Leadership Institute. He recently retired from the
position of the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management
Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Schein has received
multiple lifetime achievement awards from associations such as the
American Society of Training Directors, the Academy of Management,
and the International Leadership Association and is the author of
numerous books.
Peter Schein is the cofounder and COO of the Organizational Culture
and Leadership Institute. Schein's expertise draws on over twenty
years of industry experience in marketing and corporate development
at technology pioneers, with a focus on the underlying
organizational culture challenges that growth engenders in
innovation-driven enterprises.
2018 Silver Nautilus Award Winner in the Business & Leadership
category.
“This is the key book for the new age of human organizations. It
ought to be compulsory reading for anyone who is given charge of
any operation.”
—Charles Handy, author of The Second Curve
“The future will reward humility and punish arrogance. Ed and Peter
Schein show us both the power and the strength of humble
leadership. This book is an antidote to arrogance and a practical
guide to making the future.”
—Bob Johansen, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future, and
author of The New Leadership Literacies
“This book outlines the pathway to a culture of cooperation and
trust and the leadership needed to create this. If you take it
seriously, Humble Leadership is the only book on management that
you will ever need.”
—Peter Block, author of Stewardship and Flawless Consulting and
coauthor of An Other Kingdom
“Humility may be the modern leader’s most important attribute. In a
complex, dynamic world, humility is simply realism. This powerful
and thoroughly engaging book delivers the wisdom of Edgar Schein’s
half century of research and practice dedicated to helping
organizations and those who manage them. Its authors—a pioneering
organizational scholar and his son—embody humility as they describe
its power in transforming organizations. Compelling case studies
clarify the humble leadership approach and make it
actionable.”
—Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management,
Harvard Business School
"Effective leadership is all about building trust and
relationships. With Humble Leadership, Ed and Peter help us to
actually get there by understanding relationships on a much more
granular and tangible level."
—Severin Schwan, CEO Roche Group
“In an era of national cynicism and dismay, this call for empathy,
trust, and collaboration is a timely breath of fresh air with
relevance for leaders at all levels.”
—Lucian Leape, Adjunct Professor of Health Policy (retired),
Harvard School of Public Health
“In focusing on ‘levels of relationships,’ the book explains
how…emerging leaders can succeed by interacting with peers and
those reporting to them in ways that are in stark contrast to the
coercive and ‘bad behaviors’ we are currently hearing about. Ed and
Peter Schein offer them an alternative and far superior approach to
leadership—one based on cooperative relationships with others that
emphasize trust and respect and, in turn, lead to stronger and more
effective organizations.”
—Robert A. Cooke, author of Human Synergistics’ Organizational
Culture Inventory
“For those in the health-care world who face the challenge of
leading organizations with layers of administrative and clinical
complexity, this book offers a path to success. Humble leadership,
as the authors remind us, though, is no mere philosophy. It is a
result of disciplined attention to structure, culture, and
relationships. The Scheins offer a persuasive road map to achieve
this understanding and true effectiveness in institutional
settings.”
—Paul F. Levy, former CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
and author of Goal Play!
“Edgar and Peter Schein’s new book, Humble Leadership, builds on
decades of study focused on organizational culture and
leadership. They articulate the criticality of leadership in
successful organizations and the strong correlation of
relationships that go beyond the transactional with successful
leaders and successful organizations. This is a must read for
reflective leaders at all levels seeking to enhance their
effectiveness and execution in pursuit of their organizational
mission and vision.”
—Gary S. Kaplan MD, Chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Health System,
Chair Lucian Leape Institute
“Edgar and Peter Schein have built on a series of previous
informative books such as Helping and Humble Inquiry with their new
book, Humble Leadership. The insights into the importance of
relationships and building an atmosphere of openness and trust are
helpful to all leaders. I believe it is particularly informative
for those in health care, dealing with the marked technical and
operational complexities.”
—Lane F. Donnelly, MD, Chief Quality Officer, Lucile Packard
Children’s Hospital Stanford, and Professor, Stanford University
School of Medicine
"Humble Leadership introduces a new model for leadership that
supports effectiveness in a rapidly changing world where leaders
and their followers are being driven by deeply entrenched cultural
norms. The timeless insights about relationships, personizing,
group process, and culture will help every leader.”
—Tim Kuppler, Director of Culture and Organization Development,
Human Synergistics, and cofounder of CultureUniversity.com
"The book offers a deeply human approach to leadership that is
attuned to the staggering complexity, rapid change, and uncertainty
facing anyone aiming to make a difference in today’s world. Written
as a joint project by Ed Schein and his son Peter, Humble
Leadership is a way of being a leader that does not rely on
transactional power, but on the relational power that comes from
trust, openness and collaboration. Illustrated with rich case
examples from the Schein’s extensive practices as organizational
consultants and exercises to develop leadership capacities of one’s
own, the book has the ring of authenticity that comes from the
hearts of people who have walked the walk."
—Maureen O’Hara, Founding Fellow, International Futures Forum;
Professor, National University; and coauthor, with Graham
Leicester, of Dancing at the Edge
"Leadership is a socio-technical process, but most leaders have
only been prepared for the technical dimension; despite their best
intentions, their performance and that of their teams and
organizations falls short. Humble Leadership aims squarely at this
problem – how to attend to the social dimension - and hits a
bull’s-eye. This compact and lively volume shows why organizations
cannot thrive on impersonal interactions, but instead require
higher-order relationships that engender trust and honest
conversation. Presenting fundamental principles and many
instructive examples, it also provides very practical guidance
about how to establish such relationships. Readers from my
industry, healthcare, will find described in this book exactly the
leadership practices that are needed backstage to achieve
patient-centered or relationship-centered care on the front lines.
This is going to be a very impactful book!"
—Anthony L. Suchman, MD, MA, Senior Consultant, Relationship
Centered Health Care
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