STRATEGIC PLANNING COACHINGPEER LEADERSHIP FORUMS Welcome toPaddling the Rapids Peter Vail, author of Managing As A Performing Art, uses the term, “permanent white water” to describe what leaders navigate  -  “a continual disorderly procession of surprising, novel, ill-structured events demanding a leader’s learning and constant attention.”  Paddling the Rapids describes what every nonprofit leader does. Whether or not you paddle a kayak or canoe, this analogy will likely resonate w