Thought Leaders
Monitor has in our midst many original thinkers and published authors. Creating original content helps us keep our competitive edge. Here you can see some of our most recent work by various authors.
| Name Chris Argyris
| Publications
| Publications
- Overcoming Organizational Defenses
- Good Communication That Blocks Learning
- Empowerment: the Emperor's New Clothes
- Skilled Incompetence
- Flawed Advice and the Management Trap
- Knowledge for Action
- The Executive Mind and Double-Loop Learning
- On Organizational Learning
- Teaching Smart People How to Learn
| Introduction
Chris Argyris, a director of the Monitor Group, 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, execu-tive leadership, control systems, and management information systems, and on how individuals adapted to change those conse-quences. He then turned his attention to ways of changing organiza-tions, 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 reason-ing (not just behavior) becomes the basis for diagnosis and action.