During an orientation at MIT Sloan, an exercise called Subarctic Survival Situation™ is introduced and Robin Chase and her new classmates are broken up into small teams. The teams are told that their plane had crash-landed in the subarctic region of Newfoundland, Canada, and that they had to rank 15 items salvaged from the plane in the order of importance for their survival. Chase’s ranking of items differed from her teammates. After much discussion, Chase ended up conceding her position only to discover that the order in which she ranked the 15 items had been right. She learned, as she put it, “Sometimes you are right and really have to fight for it.”
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Ed Schein is Professor Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, and co-founder of the Organizational Culture and Leadership Institute (OCLI.org). He is one of the original scholar-practitioners in the fields of organizational psychology and organizational development and he may be best known for first expanding our understanding of organizational culture. His consulting and coaching has transformed leadership theory and practice since the 1970s. His latest book, Humble Inquiry 2nd Edition, co-authored with his son Peter, is an international best seller. Ed was educated at University of Chicago, Stanford University, and received his PhD in Social Psychology at Harvard University. 
Peter Schein is the co-founder and COO of the Organizational Culture and Leadership Institute (OCLI.org) in Menlo Park, CA. Prior to OCLI.org, Peter was a strategy and corporate development executive at large and small technology companies in Silicon Valley, including Apple, SGI, Concentric Network (XO), Packeteer (Blue Coat), Sun Microsystems, and other start-up ventures. Peter was educated at Stanford University (BA, Social Anthropology) and Northwestern University (MBA, Kellogg GSM). He is a contributing author of Organizational Culture and Leadership, 5th Edition (2017), and co-author of The Corporate Culture Survival Guide 3rd Edition (2019), Humble Leadership (2018), and the 2nd Edition of Humble Inquiry (2021). 
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