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The Formative Years—Leadership, Culture, and Organization

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In a classic on organizational culture and leadership, the distinguished professor of business management, Edgar Schein holds that “the only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture … the source of the beliefs and values that get a group moving in dealing with its internal and external problems.”1

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Light, D.W., Maturo, A.F. (2015). The Formative Years—Leadership, Culture, and Organization. In: Good Pharma. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137374332_3

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