Organizational Culture and Leadership, 5th Edition

About the Authors

Ed Schein is Professor Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management. He was educated at the University of Chicago, Stanford University, and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology. He worked at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research for four years and then joined MIT, where he taught until 2005.

He has published extensively, including Organizational Psychology, 3rd ed., (1980), Process Consultation Revisited (1999), a book on career dynamics (Career Anchors, 4th ed. with John Van Maanen, 2013), Organizational Culture and Leadership, 4th ed. (2010), The Corporate Culture Survival Guide, 2nd ed. (2009), a cultural analysis of Singapore’s economic miracle (Strategic Pragmatism, 1996), and Digital Equipment Corp.’s rise and fall (DEC is Dead; Long Live DEC, 2003).

In 2009 he published Helping, a book on the general theory and practice of giving and receiving help. This was followed in 2013 by Humble Inquiry, which explores why helping is so difficult in Western culture, and which won the 2013 business book of the year award from the Dept. of Leadership of the University of San Diego. He has just published Humble Consulting (2016), which revises the whole model of how to consult and coach, and is currently working with his son, Peter, on Humble Leadership (2017), which challenges our current theories of leadership and management.

He continues to consult with various local and international ...