Teaching Smart People How to Learn
Teaching Smart People How to Learn
by Chris Argyris
Competitive success depends on learning, but most people, including professionals in leadership positions, are not very good at it. Learning is a function of how people reason about their own behavior. Yet most people engage in defensive reasoning when confronted with problems. They blame others and avoid examining critically the way they have contributed to problems. Companies need to make managers’ and employees’ reasoning patterns a focus of continuous improvement efforts.
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading.
Microsoft Excel and Access Integration With Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Excel and Access Integration With Microsoft Office 2007
Although many people rarely go from Excel into Access or vice versa, you should know that Microsoft actually designed these applications to work together. In this book, you’ll discover how Access benefits from Excel’s flexible presentation layer and versatile analysis capabilities, while Access’s relational database structure and robust querying tools enhance Excel. Once you learn to make the two work together, you’ll find that your team’s productivity is the real winner.