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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.

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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.

Learning as a Way of Being

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 26/03/1996
      ISBN13: 9780787902469, 978-0787902469
      ISBN10: 0787902462

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      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.

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