Bestselling author and father of organizational culture studies, Edgar
Schein and Peter Schein trail-blaze with a creative perspective on
leadership that encourages vulnerability and empathy as a form of
strength.
The more traditional forms of leadership that are based on static
hierarchies and professional distance between leaders and followers are
growing increasingly outdated and ineffective. As organizations face
more complex interdependent tasks, leadership must become more personal
in order to insure open trusting communication that will make more
collaborative problem solving and innovation possible. Without open and
trusting communications throughout organizations, they will continue to
face the productivity and quality problems that result from reward
systems that emphasize individual competition and climbing the corporate
ladder. Authors Edgar Schein and Peter Schein recognize this reality and
call for a reimagined form of leadership that coincides with emerging
trends of relationship building, complex group work, diverse workforces,
and cultures in which everyone feels psychologically safe. Humble
Leadership calls for here and now humility based on a deeper
understanding of the constantly evolving complexities of interpersonal,
group and intergroup relationships that require shifting our focus
towards the process of group dynamics and collaboration. Humble
Leadership at all levels and in all working groups will be the key to
achieving the creativity, adaptiveness, and agility that organizations
will need to survive and grow.
