Uma vida Repleta de aprendizado.

A "Life full of learnig" é um famoso artigo publicado por Chris Argyris em 2003. Chris Argyris é nascido em 16 de Julho de 1923 nos Estados Unidos da América, Chris Argyris é considerado como uma das maiores autoridades mundiais no campo do comportamento organizacional. Foi ele o precursor do conceito de organizações em aprendizagem (ou learning organization), mais tarde popularizado por Peter Senge, conceito este que descreve uma organização em permanente aprendizagem.
Segue a introdução do artigo original, em inglês.


I began my career with a dedication to reducing injustices. The injustices that
intrigued me were those that inhibited the expansion of liberating alternatives.
Soon I narrowed my focus even further to those injustices created by human
beings when they were acting to reduce the injustices. The more that I studied
these phenomena, the more I found myself studying processes that were selfsealing,
compulsively repetitive, and non-interruptable and changeable by the
very people who created them. Kubie (1958) described such processes as
neurotic and undermining creative change. Fromm (1955) made a similar
point, emphasizing societal variables.
It became increasingly clear that human beings were skillful at maintaining
vigilantly these corrosive and non-learning features. These features continue
to exist today in organizations. Yet there are no courses at universities or other
executive programs that teach human beings, groups, intergroups, and
organizations the skills of producing these counterproductive, compulsively
repetitive processes. How do we explain their omnipresence and perseverance?
I chose to become a scholar because I felt a deep sense of responsibility to
test the claims that I would make in the most robust manner possible. I sought
to assure myself that I was not unwittingly kidding myself or others in the
claims that I was making.
At the outset of my career, I assumed that justice and seeking truth represented
unbounded good. As I will illustrate below, I learned that both features
contain inner contradictions. As justice is strengthened, it can also produce
knowledge that violates it. As truth is strengthened by the use of the ideas in
good currency in the scholarly community, it can also create conditions for
limiting truth.