“Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning, yet most people don't know how to learn.”

—  Chris Argyris

Chris Argyris (1991, p. 99) as cited in: Greenwood (2000) The Role of Reflection in Managerial Learning. p. xv

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American business theorist/Professor Emeritus/Harvard Busin… 1923–2013

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