Quotes from Chris Argyris

Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.

Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning.

Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.

people get trapped by using patterns of behavior to protect themselves against threats to their self-esteem and confidence and to protect groups, intergroups, and organizations to which they belong against fundamental, disruptive change.

Leadership is the day to day communications about the real issues.