A Letter To the Reader

It is with heavy hearts that we relay the news to you that Edgar Schein passed away on January 26, 2023, just shy of his 95^th birthday. Ed, John, and Peter had just completed the final edits for the book you hold in your hands, Career Anchors Reimagined.

A legend in the fields of organizational culture, organization change, and career dynamics, Ed was a brilliant and treasured expert whose work and teachings will long be remembered by those of us at who were fortunate to have worked with him over the years.

Ed was clear, direct, passionate, and thoughtful, and always expressed appreciation of and interest in others. A prolific thinker and author, Ed wrote or cowrote nearly 200 articles and books—many of those with Wiley—over the course of his career. The tremendous impact that his work has had on the lives and livelihoods of others will be felt for year and years to come and we will miss him dearly at Wiley.