ARYGRIS: THEORIES OF ACTION Double-loop learning and organisational reasoning Chris Arygris Arygris believed that we all have theories of action. These are the mental maps that tell us how to react in any given situation. These mental maps tell us how to...
BASIC ASSUMPTION GROUPS Bion Bion’s theory of Basic Assumption Groups is a way of understanding what is going on behind group behaviour in change. Bion identified that there are three groups of behaviour, and that systems will shift their focus between these...
MBTI MYERS BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers The MBTI approach is based around the ideas of Jungian Philosophy; that is that everyone has a preferred way of perceiving and judging the world that affects their every thought...
THE DIVIDED BRAIN (THE MASTER AND HIS EMISSARY) Iain McGilchrist The divided brain is a way of understanding how the human brain does what it does. McGilchrist believes that what matters is not what the brain does but how it does it. The brain has two...
NEURO-SCIENCE (SYSTEM 1 AND SYSTEM 2) Kahneman Kahneman believes that there are two different ways in which the human brain thinks about knowing and two different ways it thinks about coherence. He termed these System 1 and System 2. Both systems are...
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