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Skilled Incompetence

Skilled Incompetence

How their propension to avoid conflict and to hold onto their expertise lead the best people to a real inability to learn.

Author(s): Chris Argyris

Publisher: Harvard Business Review

Date of publication: 1986

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Synopsis

This article is one of the sources used in Manageris’ synopses:

Spotting and fighting our defensive reasoning

Spotting and fighting our defensive reasoning

We often adopt behaviors that are at odds with our values. Defense mechanisms, most often unconscious, are behind this phenomenon. How can we get rid of these defensive reactions?
306b – Synopsis (8p.) Emotions