Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest
By: Peter
Block
This revolutionary
book redefines what being "value added" means in an organization. Block turns
around the traditional thinking about who works for whom. Organizations that
practice stewardship, Block explains, will succeed in their marketplace by
choosing service over self-interest at every point and by a far-reaching
distribution of power, privilege and wealth. Without this, little real change
will result. And individuals who see themselves as stewards will hold themselves
accountable to those over whom they exercise power. They will choose to
surrender the need to control and take care of others.
Block calls for a
whole new way of thinking about the workplace-and then takes the reader through
very tangible steps for getting there. He demonstrates how applying the concept
of stewardship will radically change all areas of organizational governance, from
individual management practices to financial and human resource systems. The
result that he depicts will be replacing self-interest, dependency, and control
with service, responsibility and partnership.
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