Many of us might fear the same fate. Welcome back. Be the first to ask a question about Stewardship. Berrett-Koehler Publishers; Edition Unstated (January 1, 1993), Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2012. If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. Peter Block insists that what is required is a dramatic shift in how we distribute power, privilege, and the control of money. I read this book as part of the Goodreads review program. This is the "idealistic" perspective. His message is that essential and that scalable.” —Lynn Luckow, President and CEO, LikeMinded.org, and former President and CEO, Craigslist Foundation “Stewardship is love in action. Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2016, Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2013. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. By clicking Sign Up, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. I purchase this to read for a class in my master's program in organizational leadership. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. 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. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2013. Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self Interest. Block lays out a model for leadership that emphasizes own ship and empowering, and applies it in some very radical ways. 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. May 20th 2013 He believes that most of the practices in corporations sap employees of ownership of the results and the processes for achieving them. excellent challenge to current paradigm. It is time for our organizations to rethink how they exercise power and control. “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. Read 279 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. While this type of employee. 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. This is book gives us the idea that we are not really leaders but stewards and that we have the power to give our gifts for the common good. Please try again. It is a little difficult to wrap my brain around it. There's a problem loading this menu right now. 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. It serves as a powerful source of hope and encouragement for servant-leaders everywhere.” —Larry C. Spears, coauthor of Insights on Leadership, The Spirit of Servant-Leadership, and Fortuitous Encounters “Over the past forty years, through Stewardship and other seminal works, Peter Block has articulated the course required for effective leadership in the 21st century. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Peter’s unique ability to pinpoint the true source of power and confront the reader in a way that cuts through defenses makes reading Stewardship a true learning and growth experience.” —Cliff Bolster, Leadership and Learning Consultant, Bolster & Associates, Inc. “Peter Block is one of the most provocative and iconoclastic thinkers we have on the topics of leadership, business, and organizational design. Well worth reading. Fascinating book! This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location. 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. It is clear from the start that great care has been taken in putting this book together not least in the thought behind the choice of cover art. 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. Life changing. Stewardship: Choosing Service over Self-Interest, The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't, The Other Six Days: Vocation, Work, and Ministry in Biblical Perspective, Ministry and Money: A Practical Guide for Pastors, “An original and profound new view on how to run organizations…Block transcends all extant leadership literature.”. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Overall I was disappointed. Teaches you a lot about entitlement, about bring focused on the goals of an organization and not yourself. From the Introduction. Something went wrong. “An original and profound new view on how to run organizations…Block transcends all extant leadership literature.” —Library Journal “Stewardship is one of those books that permanently changes how you think. The principle of responsibility. Will make you think - and re-think. He insults those employees who view work as just a job when he writes "When will I finally choose adventure and accept the fact that there is no safe path - that my underlying security come from counting on my own actions or from some higher power, neither of which will be discovered via an engineering solution." 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. “Stewardship is one of those books that permanently changes how you think. It is divided into three parts. Stewardship makes public ideas that some organizational development people think but are afraid to say out loud. An excellent guide to creating positive outcomes, applied to whatever structure one is working in or with. This is much more than a management book and much better than awful. Too many were seeking the financial rewards of sitting in the BIG chair without humbling themselves with the knowledge or intent to serve first and the rewards will come in many forms, including compensation. Too many were seeking the recognition of reaching such a position of notable presence without and agenda to serve but with an agenda to be served because they are the boss. Editor's Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership, Leader Effectiveness Training: L.E.T. Recently I came across and read the first 1993 edition of this book. Buy. Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others . Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2013. Leading in the way Peter describes requires courage, a virtue missing in many of today’s organization leaders. 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. His insights are still fresh and razor sharp, and he expresses them in a singular, poetic style. God created us to be stewards of His creation. It obliterates the wall between good business and ethical business…Get better business results, change the world, and save your soul with a single book.” —Gifford Pinchot III, cofounder and President, Bainbridge Graduate Institute “The most insightful analyst of what ails organizations has written a very timely update of his book Stewardship. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. In the twenty years I have been engaged in collaborative leadership programs, Peter has been a go-to author for challenging the theory and practice of leadership. Excellent book about selflessness. The book is mainly geared toward those who are running a business, or intend to own/operate a business.
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