Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-interestBlock's widely awaited new book shows how the spirit of partnership and service can be made part of every business, government agency, and nonprofit institution. The author of The Empowered Manager unveils radical new models of stewardship for organizations and individuals within organizations. |
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Contents
Trading Your Kingdom for a Horse | 1 |
The Underbelly of Leadership | 15 |
Balancing Power | 28 |
CHOOSING SERVICE OVER SELFINTEREST | 41 |
Sometime Later in the Week | 55 |
The Stewardship Contract | 68 |
Everyone Is on the Bus | 81 |
Management Practices | 97 |
CREATING ACCOUNTABILITY | 135 |
Institutional Caretaker | 148 |
The End of Caretaking | 181 |
RECREATING OUR ORGANIZATION | 203 |
The Answer to the Power Company | 218 |
CYNICS VICTIMS AND BYSTANDERS | 221 |
How? Is a Defense | 234 |
The Artist | 255 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-interest Berrett-koehler Series |
| Author | Peter Block |
| Contributor | Books24x7, Inc |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1993 |
| ISBN | 1881052281, 9781881052289 |
| Length | 264 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Management |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |