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| Path: Main Street : Resources & Library : Book Reviews : Book Review |
Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-interest
by Peter Block.
256 pages. From Berrett-Kochler Publishers/John Wiley and Sons.Like Joseph's amazing dreamcoat, Stewardship is a book of many colours. Severely real, yet hopeful, it speaks to democracy and oppression, the human spirit and profit, helplessness and leadership. The book queries the entire concept of current management culture and its relationship to our future spiritual health and financial well-being.
Block's vision makes for compelling reading. He argues for a new mindset in the workplace, and insists that the managing of work can be successfully reintegrated with the doing of work by providing extensive reforms in a number of areas.
Imagine democracy thriving in our organizations, ethical and spiritual values flourishing, and financial successes assured. Block sounds the alarm on the ways organizations and society operate. His views propel management from a control mentality to one of shared governance, partnering, and team ownership.
Advocating the redistribution of power and a clear plan of action, Block challenges traditional leadership, urging a change in basic values and beliefs. Stewardship illuminates the relationship between political values and economic viability.
Buy the Book:
Canada: buy through Amazon.ca: CDN$24.46
International: buy through Amazon.com: US$13.27
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