Using Schein's three levels of organizational culture, we'll consider how basic underlying assumptions, espoused values, and artifacts all interact with each other.
There's an argument to be made that we shouldn't think too much about the background to an organization
You can think about it in terms of doing something, or in terms of understanding the environment.
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But what about the memory of the field you are studying?
Taylor built one of the greatest teams in the history of high-technology and kept it together for years.
Heroic lone-wolf entrepreneurs may be the preferred heroes of narratives spun by the media,
but history has shown us that teams—and the networks that come from them—are the true engines behind innovation in Silicon Valley and far beyond.
No one understood this better than Bob Taylor.
Reflecting back on your thinking about this in terms of the individual,
what kinds of artifacts, espoused values, and basic underlying assumptions
reflect and express our place of employment? of school? of voluntary gathering?