Learning as a Way of Being

In Learning as a Way of Being, Vaill offers a thoughtful critique of the roots of management education and argues that, if managers are to navigate the waters skillfully, insitutions of "higher learning" must, above all, teach managers how to integrate the discipline of learning into their very being. Such learning must be marked by strong self-direction, willingness to taker isks, and integration of the learning that life teaches outside the classroom.

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.