Edited by Chris Argyris, James Bryant Conant Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, and a Director of the Monitor Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Review from previous edition Reasons and Rationalizations is one of the most challenging and powerful books produced in the field of management for many years. It is not surprising when you consider it was written by one of the world's leading management scholars. Professor Argyris' contribution to the management and applied social science literature has no rival, he is in a league literally by himself. This outstanding book is a must read for all managers and executives, academics in business schools, applied social scientists, and any others prepared to think about and confront the challenges of organizational life in our times. - Professor Cary L. Cooper, CBE, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University, England

... the book provides a foundation in double loop learning for senior management executives, and organizational consultants. - Nurturing Potential (online magazine)

For the past half-century Chris Argyris has been one of the most important thinkers about organizations and personality, and developing creative interventions to bring out the best of both. This book is (for me) his clearest, most cogent, and perhaps most important, in summing up a lifetime of thought, action, and heart on the critical issue of how we live our lives in integrity, both in and out of organizations. - Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at USC, Chair of Harvard University's Center for Public Leadership and author of On Becoming a Leader

For nearly half a century, Chris Argyris has been seeking to make knowledge a guiding light for human action, and more specifically the vehicle for a more humane, more effective and indeed more just workplace. Few authors have made such a persuasive case for management learning as possessing the potential of enlightening as well as liberating organizational participants from some of the unnecessary hardships and anguish that they experience as a routine part of their lives in organizations. - Management Learning