Archive for October, 2008

Reflections for My Mirror: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again…

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

 
So when we broke into groups in class to talk about the Schein chapters and how we were going to articulate those concepts for concept map,  Jess and I had chapter 8 - Assumptions About the Nature of Time and Space.   I found some of this fascinating,a nd I spent some time thinking about time being monochronic [...]

Reflections for My Mirror: Getting Back in the Swing…

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Last week with a reading day rather than class, I did a bit of procrastinating and left most of my reading for this week before we went back.  As I picked up the Schein book I hadn’t layed eyes on in over a week, I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to easily sink back in.  [...]

Reflections for My Mirror: Schein On

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Making my way through the chapters in the Schein book this week, I find my mind repeatedly drawn back to a paragraph in the introduction to Part 1.  It seems like such a “Duh!” kind of thing, but I never really thought about how culture comes about in an organization and what impact leaders have on [...]