Societal Learning and Change

In this book, author Steve Waddell presents a framework for changing relationships at the individual and societal level and explains how to do this from a systems perspective that covers diverse approaches, including corporate citizenship, social responsibility, community development, private-public partnerships, inter-sectoral collaboration, and sustainability strategies. This book builds on the traditions of individual and organisational learning to create learning societies. Through case studies and the author’s framework for change, he describes processes worthy of the challenges of the three key systems that make up our societies - the political system (government), economic system (business), and social system (civil society).

The book is described as: "aim[ing] to make it easier to solve differences in order to work together successfully; it does this by identifying some of the differences as sources of tension and opportunity and describing the development processes of building relationships that can produce mutually rewarding innovation that is unimaginable when the relationship begins."