Teaching Smart People How to Learn

Name: Teaching Smart People How to Learn
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SKU: 9781422126004
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By Chris Argyris

Series: Harvard Business Review Classics

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In Teaching Smart People How to Learn, Chris Argyris explores the challenges highly skilled professionals face in learning from their mistakes and adapting to new situations. The book highlights how success often leads to a defensive mindset, preventing individuals and organisations from recognising and correcting errors. By examining these behaviours, Argyris offers insights into fostering a learning culture that embraces failure as a step towards growth.
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This book may appeal to you if you're interested in understanding why highly intelligent professionals sometimes struggle to adapt and learn in the workplace. It explores the nuances of managerial learning and organisational behaviour, offering insights into how to foster a more effective and open-minded business environment.

Teaching Smart People How to Learn

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.

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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 behaviour, 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 from learning from mistakes and offers suggestions for helping talented employees develop more productive responses.

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Teaching Smart People How to Learn by Chris Argyris is well-regarded for its insightful analysis of the learning challenges faced by highly skilled professionals. Reviewers appreciate its exploration of defensive mindsets and how they can hinder personal growth and organisational change. The emphasis on embracing a learning-focused perspective rather than maintaining a fixed mindset is frequently highlighted as a valuable takeaway for leaders and teams wanting to enhance their adaptability and effectiveness.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781422126004

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 May 2008

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 109.0mm

Height: 167.0mm

Weight: 62g

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Business & Entrepreneurship Business Leadership & Management Chris Argyris Company Culture & Human Resources Non-Fiction Series: Harvard Business Review Classics

About the Author

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 the Management Trap (OUP, 1999), and Reasons and Rationalizations (OUP, 2004). A chair professorship was established in 1994 at Yale University. He is a Director Emeritus of Monitor Group.