Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged an identity to which the individual inevitably becomes strongly attached psychologically.
Edgar ScheinIn 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 ScheinWe do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.
Edgar ScheinLeadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.
Edgar ScheinA pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that have worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems.
Edgar Schein