Learning as a Way of Being: Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water / Edition 1

by Peter B. Vaill

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787902469
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/19/1996
Series:	Jossey-Bass Leadership Series , #216
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.13(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: An Ordinary Day on the River: Living in a World ofPermanent White Water.

WAYS OF LEARNING: DOING VERSUS BEING.

Learning as a Means to Doing: Institutional Learning and theInstitutionalized Learner.

Learning as a Way of Being: All Experience Is Learning.

WAYS OF BEING: STRATEGIES FOR LEARNING.

Systems Learning.

Leaderly Learning.

Cultural Unlearning.

Spiritual Learning.

Epilogue: Discovery, Cultivation, Recognition, and the RealLearnings of Life.