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Teaching Smart People How to Learn
Chris Argyris
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Description for Teaching Smart People How to Learn
Paperback. Competitive success depends on learning, but most people, including professionals in leadership positions, are not very good at it. This book shows how companies that focus on continuously improving their managers' and employees' reasoning patterns can improve employee problem-solving and therefore increase success. Series: Harvard Business Review Classics. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 109 x 6. Weight in Grams: 70.
Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners? Likely, they haven't had the opportunities for introspection that failure affords. So when they do fail, instead of critically examining their own behavior, they cast blame outward--on anyone or anything they can. In Teaching Smart People How to Learn, Chris Argyris sheds light on the forces that prevent highly skilled employees for learning from mistakes and offers suggestions for helping talented employees develop more productive responses. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice-many of which still speak to and ... Read more
Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners? Likely, they haven't had the opportunities for introspection that failure affords. So when they do fail, instead of critically examining their own behavior, they cast blame outward--on anyone or anything they can. In Teaching Smart People How to Learn, Chris Argyris sheds light on the forces that prevent highly skilled employees for learning from mistakes and offers suggestions for helping talented employees develop more productive responses. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice-many of which still speak to and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Series
Harvard Business Review Classics
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781422126004
SKU
V9781422126004
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About Chris Argyris
Chris Argyris is the James Conant Professor of Education and Organizational Behavior Emeritus at Harvard University. He has consulted to numerous private and governmental organizations. He has received many awards including thirteen honorary degrees and Lifetime's Contributions Awards from the Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, and American Society of Training Directors. His most recent books are, Flawed Advice and ... Read more
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