Chris Argyris

"Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners? It's because they haven't had the opportunities for introspection that failure affords. 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 people from learning from mistakes, and offers up suggestions for helping you talent reach their full potential."--BOOK JACKET.

Topics include: how to run a successful meeting, change frontline employees behaviour, and build effective management teams.

Organizational Learning II: Theory, Method, and Practice expands and updates the ideas and concepts of the authors' ground-breaking first book. Offering fresh innovations, strategies, and concise explanations of long-held theories, this book includes new alternatives for practitioners and researchers. Argyris and Schon address the four principle questions which cut across the two branches of the field of organizational learning. Why is an organization a learning venue? Are real-world organizations capable of learning? What kinds of learning are desirable? How can organizations develop their capability for desirable kinds of learning? With new examples and the most up-to-date information on the technical aspects of organization and management theory, Argyris and Schon demonstrate how the research and practice of organizational learning can be incorporated in today's business environment.

"This is the definitive single volume reference guide to the management sciences. In nearly 900 entries totalling more than 700,000 words, it covers all the concepts, terminology and techniques of management theory and practice." "Entries range between concise definitions of terms and longer essays reviewing central concepts in management. Throughout, the book combines academic rigour with clarity and accessibility.". "For students of business and management, the Concise Encyclopedia will be an essential vade-mecum for their studies; for the specialist, it offers insights from leading researchers; for the working manager it will be a one-stop guide to today's management theory, research and practice."--BOOK JACKET.

"Flawed Advice and the Management Trap: How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not is the first book to show how and why so much of today's business advice is flawed, and how managers and executives can better evaluate advice given to their firms.". "Applying a disciplined critique to numerous representative examples of advice about leadership, learning, change, and employee commitment, Argyris shows readers how to be more critical of the advice they are given, how to learn new approaches for appraising employee performance, and how to generate an internal commitment to values and better strategy."--BOOK JACKET.