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Brief History of Change: Argyris

LDRLB

Behavioral scholar Chris Argyris studied this need for intervention, eventually publishing his findings in the late 1960s as Intervention Theory. Argyris first defined intervention. To intervene is to enter into ongoing system or come between people, groups or objects to provide assistance. They need an intervention.

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Brief History of Change: Argyris

LDRLB

Behavioral scholar Chris Argyris studied this need for intervention, eventually publishing his findings in the late 1960s as Intervention Theory. Argyris first defined intervention. To intervene is to enter into ongoing system or come between people, groups or objects to provide assistance. They need an intervention.

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Effectively Influencing Decision Makers: Ensuring That Your Knowledge Makes a Difference

Marshall Goldsmith

Former Harvard Professor Chris Argyris pointed out how “upward feedback” often turns into “upward buck-passing”. Do a thorough analysis of ideas before “challenging the system”. We can become “disempowered” when we focus on what others have done to make things wrong and not what we can do to make things right.

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Your Team Needs an Intervention

Harvard Business Review

Six top executives are midway through a 12-week assignment: Figure out how thousands of employees in their $8 billion company can absorb major changes—three acquisitions, a new global IT system, and a mandate to double revenue in three years—in minimal time.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Everyone can improve their coaching, exactly what form "improve coaching" takes could vary for every individual: be more encouraging, be more challenging, focus on building an understanding of the organization as a system, spend more time coaching - less time reading and writing reports, etc.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

It is also worth noting that in this era, ownership of capital, which permitted acquisition and expansion of means of production (factories and other systems), was the basis for economic well-being. Optimization therefore made a lot of sense. Knowledge began accumulating about what worked in organizational management.

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10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

These principles represent a combination of organizational systems and individual capabilities — the hardware and software of transformation. But only when you implement all of them together, as a single system, will they enable you to attract, develop, and retain the strategic leaders who’ve eluded you thus far.