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Preview Thursday – Humble Leadership

Lead Change Blog

The following is an excerpt from Humble Leadership:The Power of Relationships, Openness and Trust by Ed & Peter Schein. Organizations around the world are struggling with the increasing rate of change, the degree of global interconnectedness, multiculturalism, and the pace of technological advances. Climate change is accelerating.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

They imply the presence of a psychological contract or an informal, unwritten commitment in the employer-employee relationship, a concept that was earlier defined by Schein (1988). A study by OD Adekoya reported that “there is an increased need for trust, fairness, and respect between both parties (employer and employee)”.

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How Digital Natives Are Changing B2B Purchasing

Harvard Business Review

But along with fax machines and long golf games, these features of B2B life have all but disappeared due to the astonishing change in technology over the past two decades. Bain & Company’s research on what consumers value shows how people benefit in multiple ways from digital technology.

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If Your Data Is Bad, Your Machine Learning Tools Are Useless

Harvard Business Review

Alan Schein Photography/Getty Images. Further, as machine learning technologies penetrate organizations, the output of one predictive model will feed the next, and the next, and so on, even crossing company boundaries. Poor data quality is enemy number one to the widespread, profitable use of machine learning.

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Three Hard Lessons From September 11

Harvard Business Review

This is how MIT's Edgar Schein defines an organization's culture, as the set of habits that an organization has developed for accomplishing its repeated tasks. America's technological superiority and unparalleled resources allowed it to obliterate the world's seventh largest army in a matter of weeks. At first, when the U.S.