Schein Culture Quotes

#1. The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study.

Karen Joy Fowler

#2. 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

#3. Steady progress toward seemingly impossible goals will win the day. Setbacks are temporary. Naysayers are best ignored.

Brad Stone

#4. 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

#5. The culture of Do and Tell does not teach us how to change pace, decelerate, take stock of what we are doing, observe ourselves and others, try new behaviors, build new relationships.

Edgar H Schein

#6. I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

Philip Pullman

#7. Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

Edgar Schein

#8. My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

Tamara Tunie

#9. What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg into an electric fan.

Oliver Herford

#10. Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.

Edgar H Schein

#11. Not every heiress is famous. Or fun. There are a lot of boring heiresses out there.

Paris Hilton

#12. 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

#13. I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each enslaved to the rhythm of Earth's day, Earth's year. I have a vision of a trillion planets pulsing to the beat of a human heart.

Stephen Baxter