About learning and change in organizations. Follows ideas from Peter Vaill, Learning As a Way of Being, and from The Fifth Discipline and other systems theory sources.

1. Learning on the River

2. Trust

3. Influence

4. Cooperation

5. core ideas

6. Balancing the parts within a context

7. the ORGANIZATION . . .

8. its inner workings

9. the organization in its CONTEXT

10. Always learning

11. We learn IN the water! We learn IN the river!

12. Not a subject but a way. . .

13. Learning happens now Explore your own way Know how you learn Learn how you know

14. value for leading and managing people

16. Acknowledgements Ideas drawn from: Peter Vaill’s Learning as a Way of Being: Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996. See especially, “Systems Learning,” pp. 103-119.