Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care
Interpretation
Culture is a deep, intrinsic part of who we are and how we interact with the world.
Edgar Schein's quote suggests that culture goes beyond superficial elements and is fundamental to our identity and actions. It reflects how deeply embedded our cultural values, beliefs, and practices are in our everyday lives, influencing our behaviors and interactions on a profound level.
In practice
A corporate retreat where the importance of fostering a strong company culture is discussed.
A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that have worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems.
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.
All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.
Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
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