Chris Argyris – My Hero

When Chris Argyris spoke to us Freshman year, he blew my mind.  Never before had a businessman seemed to me to be so insightful into human nature.   He was articulate, persuasive and funny.

He could even be sacrilegious, once referring to my Catholic Church as “the marketing department of the Lord.”

I never got to take any of the group dynamics classes he famously taught.  But his “Organizational Behavior” wing of the Department was particularly strong, and I benefited from “T-group” and “group dynamics” classes taught by Clay Alderfer and an associate professor whose name I forget, but whose curly red hair I can’t forget!  (Does anyone know who I’m talking about?)