Learning as a Way of Being Strategies for

Offers a thoughtful critique of the roots of management education and argues that institutions of higher learning must teach managers how to integrate the discipline of learning into their very being. Such learning must be marked by strong self-direction, willingness to take risks, and integration of the learning that life teaches outside the classroom.

PETER B. VAILL is professor of human systems and director of the Ph.D. program at the School of Business and Public Management, George Washington University. In 1985, Vaill was described in Training and Development Journal as one of the top ten organization development specialists in the United States.

Preface

xi

The Author

xxi

Introduction: An Ordinary Day on the River: Living in a World of Permanent White Water

1

(24)

Part One: Ways of Learning: Doing versus Being

Learning as a Means to Doing: Institutional Learning and the Institutionalized Learner

25

(26)

Learning as a Way of Being: All Experience Is Learning

51

(52)

Part Two: Ways of Being: Strategies for Learning

Systems Learning

103

(18)

Leaderly Learning

121

(30)

Cultural Unlearning

151

(26)

Spiritual Learning

177

(12)

Epilogue: Discovery, Cultivation, Recognition, and the Real Learnings of Life

189

(6)

Resource I: Change Assessment Inventory

195

(6)

Resource II: Exploration and Discovery: A Dialogue of Learning

201

(8)

References

209

(4)

Index

213

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Learning as a Way of Being Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water

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