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Humble Leadership
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Humble Leadership

by Edgar H. Schein, Peter A. Schein
August 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
192 pages
3h 44m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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TWO

Culturally Defined Levels of Relationship

All leadership theories acknowledge that leadership involves “relationships,” yet very few take the trouble to analyze and explain what they mean by that word. For us, the concept of relationship refers sociologically to how people connect with each other. When we discuss managerial culture, we will argue that these interpersonal connections have a particular meaning in the context of hierarchy and bureaucracy. Inasmuch as we are focusing on different levels of relationship, we must begin by explaining what we mean by the word itself and by showing how the US cultural context provides implicitly defined relationship levels around which we can build our particular work-related Level 2 concept. To fully ...

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ISBN: 9781523095407