Tomorrow marks week 39 of 2014, and the NIV Leadership Bible focuses the week’s devotions on the leadership skill of “double-loop learning.” This leadership theory for individuals and organizations was coined by Chris Argyris—an American business theorist, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School, and Thought Leader in the field of Organization Development.
Argyris used different terms for solving immediate problems (“single-loop learning”) and addressing root causes of problems (“double-loop learning”). He observes, “Many people define learning too narrowly as mere ‘problem solving,’ so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important, but if learning is to persist, managers and employees must look inward. They need to reflect critically on their own behavior, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organization’s problems, and then change how they act. In particular, they must learn how the very way they go about defining and solving problems can be a source of problems in its own right.”
Let’s see what we can learn from the example of the Apostle Peter and how Jesus helped him with “Double-Loop Learning.”
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