Remembering Ed Schein
Ed Schein died January 26, 2023 at the age of 94. Here are some pearls of wisdom he once shared with me as part of my research.
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Challenges of Helping
As human beings, we often strive to be helpful. We may do this in one or more of our roles as a friend, colleague, manager, peer, coach, consultant, parent, sibling, etc. In his book, Helping, Edgar Schein (2007) wrote about the imbalance that occurs when a helping relationship emerges. This imbalance involves the person being helped as a “down” or “subordinated” position (NOTE: this is not “subordinate”). Most of us