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Ed Schein Peter Schein
Ed Schein passed away on January 26, 2023. He was 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 Institute of Research for four years and then joined MIT, where he taught until 2005.
Recognized as one of the founders of the field of organizational psychology, his most notable early contributions were in the fields of organizational development and culture, process consultation, and career development. His 1965 book Organizational Psychology came out in 3rd edition (1980) followed by his Organizational Culture and Leadership which had 5 editions between 1985 and 2017, Helping (2013), Humble Inquiry (2014) which won the business book of the year award from the Department of Leadership of the University of San Diego, Humble Consulting (2016).
Many of his recent books emerged from his rich collaboration with his son Peter through their joint project Organizational Culture and Leadership Institute (OCLI.org). These include Humble Leadership (2018) which received a silver medal in the Nautilus Book Awards, the Corporate Culture Survival Guide, 3rd Edition (2019), and Humble Inquiry (2nd Ed. 2021). His two case study monographs were DEC is Dead; Long Live DEC, (2003) as well as a cultural analysis of Singapore's economic miracle (Strategic Pragmatism, 1996). Career Anchors Reimagined with John Van Maanen and Peter Schein (2023) and Humble Leadership with Peter Schein (2nd Ed. 2023) are soon to be published posthumously.
Among his awards, Ed received the 2009 Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award of the Academy of Management, the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association, the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award in Organization Development from the International OD Network. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the IEDC Bled School of Management in Slovenia.
In 2009 he published Helping, a book on the general theory and practice of giving and receiving help 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 released Humble Consulting which revises the whole model of how to consult and coach and is currently working with his son Peter on Humble Leadership (2018) which challenges our current theories of leadership and management.
Peter Schein
Peter Schein is a strategy consultant in Silicon Valley and is the cofounder of the Organizational Culture and Leadership Institute (OCLI.org). Peter’s writing draws on over thirty years of industry experience in product marketing and corporate development at technology pioneers including Pacific Bell, Apple, Silicon Graphics, Inc., Packeteer (BlueCoat) and Sun Microsystems. Inc. (Oracle), with a focus on the underlying organizational culture challenges that growth engenders in innovation-driven enterprises.
He is co-author of six books with Ed Schein including Organizational Culture and Leadership 5th Edition (2017), Humble Leadership (2018), The Corporate Culture Survival guide, 3rd Edition, Humble Inquiry 2nd Edition (2021), the upcoming release of Career Anchors Reimagined (2023), and the second edition and thoroughly revised Humble Leadership (2023).
Peter was educated at Stanford University (BA Social Anthropology, Honors and Distinction) and Northwestern University (Kellogg MBA, Marketing and Information Management, Top Student in Information Management), and the USC Marshall School of Business Center For Effective Organizations (HCEO Certificate, 2017).