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The Right Use of Power

How Stewardship Replaces Leadership

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The Right Use of Power

By: Peter Block
Narrated by: Peter Block
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Stewardship is our best response to our search for better leaders. It finally acknowledges the fact that we are all in this together. Leadership as we know it tries to answer the question "What's in it for me?" Wrong question. The only question that matters is "What do we want to create together?" This is the most compelling question we can ask in business today.

The words of Peter Block convey the essence of his revolutionary message. On The Right Use of Power, this bestselling author and distinguished management consultant fast-forwards us to the business model of the future: a self-governing, accountable organization where power is shared equally, and work has meaning far beyond conventional measures. Join this business visionary as he explores:
• The community of workers, and how faith, service, and communication redefine success
• How to retain the best coworkers, and why it has little to do with money
• The high-control, low-adaptive organization, and its roots in the parent-child relationship
• What the philosopher-artist can teach us about pure motivation
• The controlling boss—the surprising truth about why they do it
• Spirituality in the workplace, and the hidden strengths of our coworkers
• Performance appraisal: obsolete artifact or necessary evil?
• Breaking the cycle of unfulfillable expectations in the workplace, through the partnership model
• The Great Questions technique for building skillful communications and trust at work
• If we redistribute power, do we have to redistribute wealth too?
• Plus compelling real-life examples of the power of stewardship, gained from Peter Block's years of work in both the public and private sectors

Concluding with a tough question-and-answer session with Peter Block, The Right Use of Power will help prepare you for the changes, challenges, and rewards coming in the new era of business—an era that has already begun.

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Peter Block's book made me realise how much potential there is pent up in ordinary people. People with purpose, shared values and an environment that fosters interdependence and respect, can do amazing things.

This builds on the great work of the likes of Stephen R Covey, Stephen RM Covey, Chip Conley. Other authors you might enjoy include Og Mandino, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, Harriet Braiker, Brene Brown, Peter Miller, Dan Ariely, Chip & Dan Heath, Kerry Patterson, Jonathan Haidt.

This isn't going to be for everyone. If you want a quick fix to a broken organisation, this isn't the book for you.

Applying the lessons of this book cannot be for the faint hearted. Block pulls no punches and had me rapt from the start.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book on a number of levels. Peter Block offers some highly stimulating and original thinking about organizational and personal leadership that I found particularly useful. His laid back delivery and dry humour at times had me chuckling, particularly when he related situations that I have myself experienced. An essential listen for those interested in modern leadership beyond the 'Industrial age, command and control paradigm' as Mr Covey would put it.


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