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Chris Argyris

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born

July 16, 1923 in Newark, NJ, The United States

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male

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http://www.monitor.com/AboutUs/WhoWeAre/Thought...

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Organizational Learning, Leadership, Teams and Productivity

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Chris Argyris is a director of elite strategy consulting firm, the Monitor Group, and is the James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School.

Agyris's early research focused on the unintended consequences for individuals of formal organizational structures, executive leadership, control systems, and management information systems, and on how individuals adapted to change those consequences. He then turned his attention to ways of changing organizations, especially the behavior of executives at the upper levels of organization.

During the past decade, Argyris has been developing, a theory of individual and organizational learning in which human reasoning (not just behavior) becomes the basis...more

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Books by Chris Argyris

Average rating: 3.99 · 119 ratings · 15 reviews · 33 distinct works

	Organizational Learning II: Theory, Method, and Practice by Chris Argyris, Donald A. Schön 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Teaching Smart People How to Learn 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Overcoming Organizational Defenses: Facilitating Organizational Learning 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1990	My rating:
	On Organizational Learning 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Theory in Practice: Increasing Professional Effectiveness by Chris Argyris, Donald A. Schön 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	Knowledge for Action: A Guide to Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Change 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Flawed Advice and the Management Trap: How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Organizational Traps: Leadership, Culture, Organizational Design 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Action Science: Concepts, Methods, and Skills for Research and Intervention by Chris Argyris, Robert Putnam, Robert Putman 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1985	My rating:
	Reasoning, Learning, and Action: Individual and Organizational 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1982	My rating: