Chris Argyris

Abstract

Chris Argyris is the guru's guru. The precise, professorial author and researcher has observed - even set the terms for - many of the most important arguments about organizations and individuals since the war. Argyris goes where more populist practitioners would fear to tread, and is one of the most controversial management thinkers of the last half century. For all Argyris's calm and studious manner, many students and managers find the relentless logic of his teachings uncomfortable, even stressful. As individuals, he teaches, managers create the environment they operate in.