Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest by Peter Block

Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest by Peter Block

Revised and expanded: this classic guide to business leadership presents an original and profound new view on how to run an organization (Library Journal).

Despite all the evidence calling for change, most organizations still rely on patriarchy and control as their core form of governance. The result is that they stifle initiative and spirit and alienate people from their work. In>Stewardship, Peter Block calls for a dramatic shift in how we distribute power, privilege, and the control of money. Stewardship, he writes, is the willingness to be accountable for the well-being of the larger organization by operating in service, rather than in control, of those around us.

Block has revised and updated the book throughout, including a new introduction addressing what has changed--and what hasn't--in the twenty years since the book was published. It also includes a new chapter on applying stewardship to the common good of the wider community. Speaking in practical terms about how stewardship transforms every function and department for the better, Block also offers tactical advice on gearing up to implement these reforms.

Revised and expanded: this classic guide to business leadership presents an original and profound new view on how to run an organization (Library Journal).

Despite all the evidence calling for change, most organizations still rely on patriarchy and control as their core form of governance. The result is that they stifle initiative and spirit and alienate people from their work. In>Stewardship, Peter Block calls for a dramatic shift in how we distribute power, privilege, and the control of money. Stewardship, he writes, is the willingness to be accountable for the well-being of the larger organization by operating in service, rather than in control, of those around us.

Block has revised and updated the book throughout, including a new introduction addressing what has changed--and what hasn't--in the twenty years since the book was published. It also includes a new chapter on applying stewardship to the common good of the wider community. Speaking in practical terms about how stewardship transforms every function and department for the better, Block also offers tactical advice on gearing up to implement these reforms.

PETER BLOCK is a partner in the consulting firm Block-Petrella-Weisbord, Inc. and an organization development consultant. He has more than twenty years of expertise in consulting, as well as planning and organizing training programs. He is a charter member of Certified Consultants International. His earlier book, Flawless Consulting, received a lot of positive feedback.

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ISBN 13	9781609948221
ISBN 10	160994822X
Title	Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest
Author	Peter Block
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Berrett-Koehler
Year published	2013-05-20
Number of pages	312
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