Our starting point is Argyris and Schön’s (1974) argument that people have mental maps with regard to how to act in situations. This involves the way they plan, implement and review their actions.

Argyris' organization is a plurality of parts achieving specific objectives and maintaining themselves through their interrelatedness. In these achievement and self-maintenance tasks they adapt to the …

Double loop learning in organizations By uncovering their own hidden theories of action, managers can detect and correct errors Chris Argyris Several years ago the top management of a multi- billion …

A learning framework the individual, group, inter-group, and organizational levels. Learning occurs when-ever errors are detected and corrected, or when a match betw en in se-quences is produced …

Our starting point is Argyris and Schön’s (1974) argument that people have mental maps with regard to how to act in situations. This involves the way they plan, implement and review their actions. It is …

Single-loop learning, Double-loop learning, and Action research (Anderson, 2013). Chris Argyris & Peter Senge developed the “ladder of inference,” a powerful tool for decision-making (Vliet, 2020).

Using examples from the business consulting world, Argyris describes the tendency for highly successful and highly motivated professionals to employ “defensive reasoning” in problem solving.