ACTION LEARNING The Skills of Diagnosis

Abstract

Complexity for Real Action learning is concerned to do something about reality—including helping those involved to see more clearly what they are about. It may lend conviction to my argument if I quote from a great writer impartially describing how others have assessed the world of action. I do this because there lingers on in our management schools the belief that “case‐studies”, usually written at great expense by “expert professors” and concealing within themselves the complex interplays of social and economic theory, are quite sufficient to equip the future manager with that sharpness of perception and that firmness of resolve needful to untangle the multiple obscurities on his horizons:

Citation

Revans, R.W. (1983), "ACTION LEARNING The Skills of Diagnosis", Management Decision, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 46-52. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001315