Archive for September, 2008
Corporate research reports–who do we write for and why write them?
In my workshop sessions, one of the first questions I ask participants concerns audience: “who are you writing for?” After a thoughtful pause, the responses begin to flow. Without exception I hear the following responses from authors or would-be authors of the typical corporate research or development report:
“I write for my supervisor. If she doesn’t like [...]
Still More on Reluctance to Improve Review Practices
Here’s a post from Skip Reardon with some thoughts on why organizational change often fails to produce the desired results.
Here is link to National Center for Adult Learning and Literacy article about the organizational change process. I think this article helps answer the question why there is reluctance to improve the we collectively review documents.
Here’s another [...]
Still More on the Reluctance to Improve Review Practice: Hard to Learn as an Adult
This is another follow-on post to the question “Why is there reluctance among science professionals to improve review practice?”. I believe referring to the work of Chris Argyris can help in answering this question. Argyris is known for his work in the area of “Learning Organizations”. In his classic paper “Teaching Smart People How to [...]