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Title: Flawed Advice and the Management Trap: How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not by Chris Argyris ISBN: 0-19-513286-6 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 13 January, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very good!
Comment: This is another fine book by Argyris. I think this, in addition to "Strategic Organizational Change" by Beitler, is very helpful. (Beitler has an outstanding chapter on how to evaluate consultants.)
Rating: 5
Summary: Valuable insight!
Comment: I recommend everything that Chris Argyris writes. This is no exception. This book has insight about management advice that reminds me of the work of Alfred Kieser at the University of Mannheim (Germany). I highly recommend the work of both Argyris and Kieser.
Dr. Michael Beitler
Author of "Strategic Organizational Change"
Rating: 4
Summary: tools to examine advices
Comment: The author presents tools to examine advices from executives, change consultants, academics, etc., and offers four basic tests for the actionability of advice. The good advice should specify the detailed, concrete behaviors required to achieve the intended consequences; it must be crafted in the form of designs that contain causal statements; people must have, or be able to be taught, the concepts and skills required to implement those causal statements; and the context in which it is to be implemented does not prevent its implementation.
Argyris' theory of good advice, being highly practical and actionable, is based on the author's theoretical framework of "Model-II", exposed in his book "Organizational Learning II", co-authored with Donald Schoen.
The book does also contain a brilliant section about effective strategic choices, written by Roger Martin in very friendly tone. A high-quality strategic choice, according to Martin, possesses four key attributes: it is genuine; it is sound; it is actionable; and it is compelling. The section uncovers these principles in details.
The book shows the difference between external and internal employee commitment to the advices and helps to create and foster internal commitment.
You can test the actionability of the advices given in this book using these advices themselves.
I would recommend "Organizational Learning II: Theory, Method and Practice" prior to reading this book. I would also recommend "Leading the Revolution" by Gary Hamel in addition to these books.
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Title: Organizational Learning II: Theory, Method, and Practice (2nd Edition) by Chris Argyris, David A. Schon ISBN: 0201629836 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 04 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $26.67 |
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Title: Knowledge for Action by Chris Argyris ISBN: 1555425194 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $44.00 |
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Title: Overcoming Organizational Defenses : Facilitating Organizational Learning by Chris Argyris ISBN: 0205123384 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 March, 1990 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
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Title: On Organizational Learning by Chris Argyris ISBN: 0631213090 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $53.95 |
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Title:Teaching Smart People How to Learn (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition) by Chris Argyris ASIN: B00005REHM Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 24 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.00 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $7.00 |
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