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His model does not allow for those who just want to go to work and work for someone, for an employee who isn't interested in the 'big' picture of the organization. Editor's Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership, Leader Effectiveness Training: L.E.T. Block helps us see our own complicity and interconnectedness with all that goes on around us and, with this updated edition, will help a new generation learn that the way to find meaning and purpose in life is to form partnerships for the common good, empower each other through human understanding, and together, build competent societies.” —Frances Strickland, PhD, President, Smith Educational Enterprises, Foreword by Steven Piersanti Welcome Introduction to the Second Edition: What Has Changed? Will make you think - and re-think. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published We still face the challenge of fostering ownership and accountability throughout our organizations. Peter always challenges my thinking and offers a perspective that I have never found elsewhere. Despite all the evidence calling for profound change, most organizations still rely on patriarchy and control as their core form of governance. 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. If individuals and companies actually acted like this, we'd have better, stronger businesses and a happier world. This challenging and thought-provoking book provides a unique and counter-culture perspective about how organizations can be run for the good of the community. Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self Interest.

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Leading in the way Peter describes requires courage, a virtue missing in many of today’s organization leaders. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Block lays out a model for leadership that emphasizes own ship and empowering, and applies it in some very radical ways. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2019, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2015, superb! I really enjoyed this book. Block makes an argument for a democratic form of business governance. As usual, Peter Block points us in the direction of our better selves, living out a better future.” —Sayra Pinto, Principal, Matriz Coaching & Consulting “This is one of those very rare anomalies: a second edition that is more essential and timely than the first. Read 279 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Fascinating book!

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Reading through the first few chapters, one might begin to believe this is some form of utopian socialist philosophy about how business could be. [Block’s] ideas create more engaged organizations, which are better for people, the environment, and business.” —Brian Camastral, CEO, Riversong Sanctuary; cofounder, BLITS Foundation; and former Global President, Mars Food “Be forewarned: this is a scary read. Block's intentions in Stewardship are good, to provide a method for organizations to choose service over self-interest, but I found his assumptions remarkably narrow-minded. Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2012. He believes that most of the practices in corporations sap employees of ownership of the results and the processes for achieving them. As a successful managing strategy for corporate. Peter Block has hit the nail on the head with his book "Stewardship". We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2013. He slams the patriarchal approach where all of the power and judgement resides in the upper sections of a corporation or public entity. Block lays out a model for leadership that emphasizes own ship and empowering, and applies it in some very radical ways. While this type of employee would be ideal, there are many, many people who value their time outside the office more importantly and want to leave managers to manage and supervisors to supervise. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Stewardship makes public ideas that some organizational development people think but are afraid to say out loud. The new edition of this foundational text extends the scope of his insights to meet the challenges that have arisen in the last twenty years and shows how to create not just productive and humane workplaces but vibrant communities, an engaged democracy, and a healthy planet.” —Toni A. Gregory, EdD, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, PhD Program in Interdisciplinary Studies, Union Institute & University “Peter Block’s second edition of Stewardship is even more provocative than the first edition was twenty years ago because we are more fearful about our economic and personal well-being than ever before. It spotlights our current dysfunctionalities—such as the literal looting of so many of our organizations by self-serving top levels—and how far we have actually regressed from a pattern of commitment to service and healthy work environments in most corporations. Recently I came across and read the first 1993 edition of this book. White once wrote that the early American author, naturalist, and philosopher Henry Thoreau appeared to have been “torn by two powerful and opposing drives—the desire to enjoy the world, and the urge to set the world straight.” Start by marking “Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Overall I was disappointed. I purchase this to read for a class in my master's​ program in organizational leadership.

It is a little difficult to wrap my brain around it. “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.

just what today's management should be reading. Many of us might fear the same fate. It's all about helping others be successful.

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