Teaching Smart People How to Learn (Harvard Business Review Classics)

I thought this contained more than the article. If you bought the HBR 10 volume set, you don’t need this, as you likely already have it(I sure did). An expensive redundancy on my part.However, if used for a corporate leadership workshop/book club, in its form would be highly effective.

I'd seen the author's principle of mutual learning (advocacy and inquiry) referenced in another book and was intrigued. Was hoping for a little more form this book, but perhaps failed to note that it was only 72 pages (in what turned out to be a fairly small format). This reads sort of like an after-dinner address, with some nice anecdotes and provocations to further thought. Nothing to disagree with here, but not much to sink your teeth into either. I guess I'll have to go deeper on Argyris!

Smart people tend to have a significant blind spot. They don't learn well because they are smart, like being smart and have built an ego to protect themselves from learning. This book storms that Bastille with wisdom and grace. Thank you Chris.

It drills down to the human condition of reasoning. Bottom line is if we are REALLY honest with ourselves and others, we learn. We need to change how we reason to overcome fear.

Very analytical. It’s allows readers to step back and question certain actions or behaviors. Highly recommended for those who aspire to be neutral.

Nice to remind myself of some of Argerys' constructs:- single and double loop learning- espoused theory and theory-in-useSparks the desire to re-connect more deeply with his work.

This is an awesome book. Great for a team development. I would recommend reading and a review with a group.

Its Generally a good book for managers. I found a lot of repetition of the same concept.You will enjoy reading it though

Good short book: Helps provide insight as to why many successful people get stuck. The behaviour that enabled them to become successful can start to undermine that very success, their learning can get stuck. Written by Chris Argyris, worth getting hold of a copy and check in with it every so often to make sure you are not in, or heading towards the same trap. This book can provide some clues as to why Reflective Practice can be tough to get into for some people, especially those that have lived by the "rules" of the corporate world.

It's a mix of common sense and well known considerations. It was literally impossible to formulate any useful take away from reading this article.

This book is about a single idea of why highly educated executives don't consider their own roles in underperformance while they adopt defensive attitudes and blame the external environment. Though the term cognitive dissonance is not used, it is well explained by examples. The methods to address this is not discussed in a concrete manner.

A pretty good intro to Chris Argyris' views on Theories in Use but very light on what you actually need to do to help Smart People learn better. I agree with the diagnosis, I was just looking for more of the cure!

Nice