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Knowledge for Action: A Guide to Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Change
Must reading for academics and executives alike. Leading business scholar Chris Argyris helps readers understand why individuals and organizations are unable to learn from their action, then presents the steps that must be taken to change.
336 pages, Hardcover
First published April 15, 1993
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About the author
Chris Argyris
63 books82 followersChris 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 for diagnosis and action.
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 for diagnosis and action.
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April 4, 2022
It was a part of my mandatory reading for my coursework in Organisational behaviour(advanced degree) .
This book should be ready by everyone by the age 0f 10 yrs .This the kind of subject matter that makes one educated and not just an "educated fool with a degree". I have been both.
It describes in detail is the basic dynamic, structure, psychological milieu of any institutionalised organisation in the western world since the roman Empire.
I have read this book a few times and written a paper about how much of what i read in The Economist, WSK, Harare Biz Review, MIT Tech review, Bloomberg, Times, Popular Scientist ....etc is deciphered by precepts in this book.
This book should be ready by everyone by the age 0f 10 yrs .This the kind of subject matter that makes one educated and not just an "educated fool with a degree". I have been both.
It describes in detail is the basic dynamic, structure, psychological milieu of any institutionalised organisation in the western world since the roman Empire.
I have read this book a few times and written a paper about how much of what i read in The Economist, WSK, Harare Biz Review, MIT Tech review, Bloomberg, Times, Popular Scientist ....etc is deciphered by precepts in this book.
August 3, 2017
The first half worth it. Easy concepts really applicable. But the second one tourns out redundant.
August 9, 2011
The Basis of Fifth Discipline book - of course a dry read
April 11, 2017
Un libro imprescindible para aquellos que quieren introducir cambios organizacionales, y/o trabajan con el aprendizaje de las organizaciones.
Es importante comprender los conceptos de este libro porque una de las claves de la innovación en las organizaciones es aprender rápido y aprender a aprender. Por lo cual este libro es importante para aquellos que trabajan en este sentido también.
Describe de una forma solvente los mecanismos de defensa que poseen las organizaciones y porque estos impiden el aprendizaje. Esto lo hace a través de la narración de un caso de estudio de un trabajo propio como consultor en una organización que se puso como objetivo aprender.
También los conceptos desarrollados son muy útiles para todos aquellos que desean mejorar la dinámica de equipos de trabajo.
Es importante comprender los conceptos de este libro porque una de las claves de la innovación en las organizaciones es aprender rápido y aprender a aprender. Por lo cual este libro es importante para aquellos que trabajan en este sentido también.
Describe de una forma solvente los mecanismos de defensa que poseen las organizaciones y porque estos impiden el aprendizaje. Esto lo hace a través de la narración de un caso de estudio de un trabajo propio como consultor en una organización que se puso como objetivo aprender.
También los conceptos desarrollados son muy útiles para todos aquellos que desean mejorar la dinámica de equipos de trabajo.
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