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On Being a Leader of Integrity: 4 ways to build personal and organizational integrity

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Chris Argyris concludes: “Put simply, people consistently act inconsistently; unaware of the contradiction between their espoused theory and theory in-use, the way they think they are acting and the way they really act.”. People are mostly unaware that they have not kept their word. In fact, we deceive ourselves.

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Ladder of Inference

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Overwhelmed by fear and desperate to escape, he winds up killing someone. Organizational psychologist Chris Argyris, a Harvard professor, uses what he calls the “ Ladder of Inference ” to explain how we take actions based upon beliefs–and how our beliefs, in turn, lead us to select observational data.

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Ladder of Inference

CO2

Overwhelmed by fear and desperate to escape, he winds up killing someone. Organizational psychologist Chris Argyris, a Harvard professor, uses what he calls the “ Ladder of Inference ” to explain how we take actions based upon beliefs–and how our beliefs, in turn, lead us to select observational data.

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