Chris Argyris Quotes

#1. people get trapped by using patterns of behavior to protect themselves against threats to their self-esteem and confidence and to protect groups, intergroups, and organizations to which they belong against fundamental, disruptive change.

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#2. One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

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#3. Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.

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#4. Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning.

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#5. In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

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#6. Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.

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#7. 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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#8. Leadership is the day to day communications about the real issues.

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