Argyris Quotes

#1. He has a head, two arms, two legs, just as I.

Bernard Hinault

#2. 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.

Chris Argyris

#3. Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Yeah, I'm thinking it's a reunion or, since it is our classmates, a collection of idiots. Let's call it a meese. Like geese, only with morons. (Caleb)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. Beware of those who promise a quick and easy way, for much ease brings many difficulties.

Jonathan Star

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

Chris Argyris

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

Chris Argyris

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

Chris Argyris

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

Chris Argyris

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

Chris Argyris

#11. 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

#12. Leadership is the day to day communications about the real issues.

Chris Argyris

#13. I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.

Bill Hicks