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Chris Argyris
\u2022Born in Newark, New Jersey on July 16,
1923.
\u2022 During the Second World War he joined the
Signal Corps in the U.S.
\u2022 He graduated with a degree in Psychology
from university at (1947).

\u2022 He went on to gain an MA in Psychology
and Economics from Kansas University
(1949), and a Ph.D. in Organizational
Behavior from Cornell University in 1951.

\u2022 Argyris is currently a director of the Monitor
Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The First Lesson

\u2022 Experience with a tough lieutenant from New York. To
me it's a powerful reminder that leadership is about
maximizing your followers\u2018 well-being, not their comfort.

\u2022 Experience as a Signal Corps Officer in Charge.
Feedback made him realize how much unaware he was
about his subordinates.
\u2022 While serving the US Army in the Second World war
had a first tryst with leadership ineffectiveness.
Works of Chris Argyris

Here the interest lies in the extent to which human reasoning, not just behavior, can become the basis for diagnosis and action

LADDER OF INFLUENCE
Research and theorizing \u2013 in
significant part undertaken with
Donald Sch\u00f6n
Moved onto a particularly fruitful inquiry into the role
of the social scientist as both researcher and actor

Theories Of Action
DOUBLE LOOP LEARNING
MODEL I-MODEL II LEARNING

Intervention Theory and
Method(1970); Inner
Contradictions of Rigorous
Research (1980) and Action
Science (1985) - with Robert

Putnam and Diana McLain Smith

Shifted his focus to organizational change, in
particular exploring the behavior of senior executives
in organizations

Interpersonal Competence and
Organizational Effectiveness
(1962) and Organization and
Innovation(1965)

Early research explored the impact of formal
organizational structures, control systems, and
management on individuals (and how they responded
and adapted to them).

MATURITY-IMMATURITY THEORY
Personality and Organization
(1957)
and Integrating the Individual
and the Organization(1964)
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