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.
Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.
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