Organizational Culture and Leadership, 5th Edition

Acknowledgments

The six years since the last edition have been different in many respects. I am now living in Palo Alto, California, in a retirement complex close to my son, Peter, who has also become my colleague and coauthor. Living in Silicon Valley and seeing the world out here through the lenses of Peter’s 25 years of experiences in a number of different start-ups and mature companies have given me a new perspective on organizational culture and leadership issues. I am therefore most grateful to Peter who is now also my partner in our Organizational Culture and Leadership Institute (OCLI .org), and to various friends and clients with whom I have worked out here. Peter’s wife, Jamie Schein, has also provided great insights from her current leadership role in the administration of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

I am especially grateful to Google, Human Synergistics, Genentech, Stanford Hospital, IDEO, The Institute of the Future, Intel, and the Silicon Valley Organization Development Network, which have provided a variety of opportunities for me to learn from and contribute to what goes on in this fascinating geographically contained pocket of innovation. My growing focus on the culture of medicine has led to many important insights about occupational cultures in particular, thus I want to thank Mary Jane Kornacki, Jack Silversin, Gary Kaplan, and the other members of the summer workshop that I attended for many years at Mary Jane’s and Jacks’ retreat on Cape Ann. ...