Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest (AGENCY/DISTRIBUTED) - Softcover

Block, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160994822X ISBN 13: 9781609948221

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Block is the author of eight books and a partner in the training company Designed Learning. He is the recipient of many awards--including the Organization Development Network's Lifetime Achievement Award and ASTD's Award for Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning--and was named to Training Magazine's HRD Hall of Fame.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160994822X
• ISBN 13: 9781609948221
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 312