Customer Review: Absolutely uninteresting, I'm returning it. Over the years, I've bought, oh probably like a dozen of these books (from this series, I mean) and, with the exception of Managing High-Tech Enterprise, found them completely unhelpful and uninteresting. Always self-contradictory, unintelligent, and... more info
Customer Review: The title is very interesting and so is the article. The article walks through the reason why smart people can't (won't) learn and describes an approach for breaking through this mode of thinking.
The basic premise is that people with high levels of education have learned to play the learning... more info
Customer Review: this is by Chris and Donald Schon, not David and the link for Author should go to Donald who has done great work
Fantastic work - great for all org dev researchers.
Customer Review: I must confess I do not have psychological background. From my humble point of view, all books like this, look at "the good and rational background" of people. They have the premise that all the staff is doing their best but "strange forces" makes them not to get the optimum for the organization.... more info
Customer Review: If you wonder why smart people with education and experience keep making the same old mistakes you will want to read this book. Let me hasten to add, however, that reading Argyris is often arduous. He is a scholar and writes like one. Having said that, he does have the answers and it is worth the... more info
Customer Review: Management scholar Chris Argyris tackles an important problem: the pervasiveness of defensive reasoning that prevents people in organizations from understanding when and why they are skillfully incompetent. Unfortunately, he employs such an academic style that his arguments are primarily useful to... more info
Customer Review: I know about 70 consultants that have studied this book during one or two years, and their words about it are always the same: terrific, essential, the more important book, actual, and so...
Almir Campos.
Customer Review: Argris, a professor of industrial psychology, has published some of the most practical and insighful works of psychology I know of. In the influential book "The Fifth Discipline" Senge devotes an entire chapter specifically to Argryis's ideas and Argyris's ideas show up all over that work. In... more info
