Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners? Likely, they haven't had the opportunities for introspection that fai...
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Sep 30, 2008
Karla
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"First, most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem solving,' so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment... But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. They need to reflect critically on their own behavior, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organization's problems, and then change how they act." page 2-3
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Apr 22, 2011
Chris
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This book is a reprint of a Harvard Business Review article. Rather than a thorough how-to, it is more of a tool to recognize and approach the barriers to learning.
Apr 02, 2011
Jenny
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The first thing I noticed about this text is how tiny it is, and then that it is only 72 pages, and then that the font is quite large and spaced out. I was worried going in, because it appeared that Argyris didn't actually have much to say about how to teach smart people how to learn.
And really, this text is more about how to get your employees to stop being defensive, renamed so that managers would feel okay about reading it at work, I imagine. It was ultra narrow and not that use More...
And really, this text is more about how to get your employees to stop being defensive, renamed so that managers would feel okay about reading it at work, I imagine. It was ultra narrow and not that use More...
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