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.
Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, and giving yourself far more trouble and anxiety to gain it than you can ever get pleasure from it when it's gained, why, as for me, I'd rather sit still and cross my arms.
Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.
Americans think they're the leader of the world and yet can say that they're putting their economic interests ahead of the lives of - quite possibly - tens of millions of people who over the next 50 years will die because of floods or storms or tropical diseases or whatever. I guess that sort of thing makes me angry.
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