Chris Argyris quotes
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“Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.”
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“Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.”
-- Chris ArgyrisSource : "Skilled Incompetence" by Chris Argyris, hbr.org. September 1986.
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“In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.”
-- Chris ArgyrisSource : Chris Argyris (2010). “Organizational Traps: Leadership, Culture, Organizational Design”, p.10, OUP Oxford
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“Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.”
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“Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisation’s problems, and then change how they act.”
-- Chris ArgyrisSource : "Teaching Smart People How to Learn". hbr.org. June 1991.
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“Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning.”
-- Chris ArgyrisSource : Chris Argyris, Donald A. Schön (1978). “Organizational learning: a theory of action perspective”, Addison-Wesley
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“One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.”
-- Chris ArgyrisSource : Chris Argyris, Donald A. Schön (1974). “Theory in practice: increasing professional effectiveness”, Jossey-Bass
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“Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.”
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“As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.”
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“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”
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“The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.”
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