ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationship between experience and reflection and its implications for organizing. The main goal lies in understanding how organizing becomes stifled by the limits of learning. The chapter explores one important way that organizing becomes stifled: by developing narratives that limit learning. Its purpose lies in describing the limits of experience as the basis for learning as well as the consequences that ensue when experience becomes divorced from reflective practice. That is to say, the chapter seeks to uncover the consequences of ‘experience absent reflection’. The phrase ‘experience absent reflection’ refers to the process that occurs when an organization relies heavily on extant experience, without engaging the reflective practices that puts experience under critical scrutiny.
