Peter Block: 12 books
Stewardship
Choosing Service Over Self-Interest
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Service, Accountability, and Partnership Stewardship was provocative, even revolutionary, when it was first published in 1993, and it remains every bit as relevant and radical today. Most organizations still rely on patriarchy and hierarchy as their core form of governance, stifling initiative and...
The Empowered Manager
Positive Political Skills at Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Empowerment produces the conditions for high performance. Especially for middle managers and below. Empowered cultures attract and retain talent. They produce high achievement, high accountability and high commitment.
The Empowered Manager uncovers a roadmap to creating a more accountable culture...
The Answer to How Is Yes
Acting on What Matters
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Modern culture’s worship of “how-to” pragmatism has turned us into instruments of efficiency and commerce—but we’re doing more and more about things that mean less and less. We constantly ask “how? and still struggle to find purpose and act on what matters. Instead of acting on what we...
Flawless Consulting, Enhanced Edition
A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
This Third Edition to Peter Block's Flawless Consulting addresses business changes and new challenges since the second edition was written ten years ago. It tackles the challenges next-generation consultants face, including more guidance on how to ask better questions, dealing with difficult clients,...
An Other Kingdom
Departing the Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called a consumer culture.
We...
The Abundant Community
Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
" We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase...
Community
The Structure of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
As a response to the increasing violence in our culture, the widening ideological divides, and the growing gap in economic well-being, there is greater awareness that a deeper sense of community is desperately needed. But even as we acknowledge the *need to build community, the dominant on-the-ground...
Taking Aim
Power and Pain, Teens and Guns
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Powerful, riveting, and real. Sixteen celebrated authors bring us raw, insightful stories that explore guns and teens in a fiction collection that is thought provoking and emotionally gripping. For fans of Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock and Give a Boy a Gun, and with an array of YA talent like the late...
American Constitutionalism, Marriage, and the Family
Obergefell v. Hodges and U.S. v. Windsor in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This edited volume in American constitutionalism places the Supreme Court’s declaration of same-sex marriage rights in U.S. v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) within the context of the Court’s developing understanding of the legal and social status of marriage and the family. Leading...
by John H. Walton, Peter E. Enns, Roy Gane
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The NIVAC Bundle includes the first five volumes in the series, also known as the Pentateuch.
Water Capitalism
The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Water covers some 75% of the earth’s surface, while land covers 25%, approximately. Yet the former accounts for less than 1% of world GDP, the latter 99% plus. Part of the reason for this imbalance is that there are more people located on land than water. But a more important explanation is that...
Space Capitalism
How Humans will Colonize Planets, Moons, and Asteroids
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
This book compares and contrasts the motivations, morality, and effectiveness of space exploration when pursued by private entrepreneurs as opposed to government. The authors advocate market-driven, private initiatives take the lead through enhanced competition and significant resources that can be...