Stewardship by Block

Stewardship by Block

One of the most provocative and revolutionary books written on leadership, business, and organizational design, Stewardship remains just as relevant, even twenty years later, to transforming our organizations for the common good of the wider community.

We still face the challenge of fostering ownership and accountability throughout our organizations. Despite all the evidence calling for profound 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 the work they do. This in the face of an increasing need to find ways to be responsive to customers and the wider community.

Peter Block insists that what is required is a dramatic shift in how we distribute power, privilege, and the control of money. Stewardship, he writes, means giving people at the bottom and the boundaries of the organization choice over how to serve a customer, a citizen, a community. It 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 and a new chapter on applying stewardship to the common good of the wider community. He covers both the theory of stewardship (in particular how it ameliorates the shortcomings of traditional leadership) and the practice (how it transforms every function and department for the better). And he offers tactical advice as well 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	9781881052869
ISBN 10	1881052869
Title	Stewardship
Author	Block
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Berrett-Koehler
Year published	1993-01-30
Number of pages	288
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.