Chris Argyris quotes

“Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.”
-- Chris Argyris

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“Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.”
-- Chris Argyris

Source : "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 Argyris

Source : 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.”
-- Chris Argyris

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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 Argyris

Source : "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 Argyris

Source : 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 Argyris

Source : Chris Argyris, Donald A. Schön (1974). “Theory in practice: increasing professional effectiveness”, Jossey-Bass

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“I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.”

“Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.”

“People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'”

“As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.”

“I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown.”

“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”

“The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

“He pressed a kiss to my ear. “Do you feel stretched? Can you tell I’ve been inside you?” I nodded, feeling my knees go a little weak from the tone in his voice. “Good. I like knowing you can feel where I’ve been.”

“Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.”

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”