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 | | May 13, 2008
Learning Requires Personal Responsibility
The Harvard Business Press is publishing some of the classic articles from past issues of the Harvard Business Review in handy pocket-size book form. This month they are releasing Teaching Smart People How to Learn by Chris Argyris. It first appeared in the May-June 1991 issue. In it he tells us that “success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning, yet most people don’t know how to learn.” Worse still is the fact that those we assume to be the best at learning – knowledge workers – are not very good at it.
True learning, what Argyris calls double-loop learning, requires that we be open to criticism. Most of what passes for learning is, according to Argyris, single-loop learning. Single-loop learning is, problem solving. That is to say, working on problems in the external environment – behaviors and tactics. This is really nothing more than fixing symptoms. Instead, workers need to “reflect critically on their own behavior, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organization’s problems, and then change how they act.” It is looking at “why we do what we do.” It is rethinking the assumptions behind why we do what we do.
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| | Creativity Gap in U.S. Workplace
A recent survey found that 88% of Americans consider themselves to be creative. But when it comes to creativity in the workplace, just 63% said their positions were creative, and 61% thought similarly of their employers.
A total of 75% of respondents thought that their employers valued their creativity, and 20% said they would change jobs—even if it meant earning less money—to be more creative at work. 29% of those surveyed indicated that they would change where they live if it meant being part of a more creative community. This was especially true of workers between the ages of 18 and 34. This “creativity gap” – the disparity between the creative resources available and those being employed – can be an important indicator, experts say, in determining how well American companies are preparing for a future U.S. economy that will rely on creativity and innovation more than ever.
SOURCE: Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (fairfaxcountyeda.org)
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