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Peter Block
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http://www.peterblock.com/
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Management Skills, Consulting, Empowerement
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Consultant and speaker, helped initiate the interest in empowerment; these days his work centers primarily on bringing service and accountability to organizations and communities. He is a partner in Designed Learning, a training company that offers consulting skills workshops designed by Peter to build the skills outlined in his Flawless Consulting books. He received a Masters Degree in Industrial Administration from Yale University in 1963; he performed his undergraduate work at the University of Kansas.
Peter is the author of many best selling books, including Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used, second edition (1999); Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest (1993); and The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work (1987). His most recent books are The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters (Berrett-Koehler, 2001), Freedom and Accountability at Work: Applying Philosophic Insight to the Real World, co-authored with consultant and philosopher Peter Koestenbaum (Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2001), and Flawless Consulting Fieldbook & Companion: A Guide to Understanding Your Expertise (2000). The Answer to How Is Yes won the 2002 Independent Book Publisher Book Award for Business Breakthrough Book of the Year.
The books provide ways to create workplaces that live out their intentions and are also more habitable. Flawless Consulting is a widely praised book on the staff role in organizations. The Empowered Manager focuses on creating an organization of our own choosing. Stewardship is about the right use of power and designing organizations for service. Peter has published over 60 articles on organizational change and building productive communities. His books have been widely reviewed in newspapers and journals throughout the country.
Peter serves on the Board of Directors of Connecticut Public TV and Radio. He helped found The School for Managing & Leading Change.
He has received several national awards for outstanding contributions in the field of training and development, including the American Society for Training and Development Award for Distinguished Contributions; the Association for Quality and Participation President’s Award; and Training Magazine HRD Hall of Fame. |
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By Block, Peter
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Amazon's customers rating 
People keep asking "How?" as a defense against living their life, says best-selling author Peter Block. In this witty, insightful award-winning book, Block shows that many standard solutions and...
Ranking at Amazon 59906
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Berrett-Koehler Pub
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October 2003 - Paperback
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Management Skills
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By Block, Peter
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Terms of Engagement introduces a new method for changing organizations based on four essential principles: Widening the Circle of Involvement, Connecting People to Each Other and Ideas, Creating...
Ranking at Amazon 61537
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Berrett-Koehler Pub
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January 2003 - Paperback
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Change Management
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By Block, Peter
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This is the first book to offer specific suggestions on how to replace performance appraisals with a more effective system that emphasizes teamwork and empowerment. Feedback, compensation, coaching,...
Ranking at Amazon 191411
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Berrett-Koehler Pub
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September 2002 - Paperback
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Employee Evaluation
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By Block, Peter
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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...
Ranking at Amazon 333963
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Berrett-Koehler Pub
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December 2001 - Hardcover
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Management Skills
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By Block, Peter
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Peter Koestenbaum and Peter Block offer you a new perspective for viewing the workplace through the lens of philosophy so that you may have a better understanding of how to reclaim your freedom and...
Ranking at Amazon 688008
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Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer
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August 2001 - Hardcover
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Management Skills
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By Block, Peter
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Don't venture into the consulting field without this essential Fieldbook & Companion! Following on the heels of the best-selling Flawless Consulting, Second Edition comes The
Ranking at Amazon 211617
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Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer
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October 2000 - Paperback
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Consulting
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By Wheatley, Margaret
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In this revolutionary book, Peter Block shows how a far-reaching redistribution of power, privilege, and wealth will radically change all areas of organizational governance, and shows why this is...
Ranking at Amazon 2433128
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Audio Literature
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December 1997 - Audio Cassette
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Management Skills
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By Block, Peter
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McLagan and Nel describe the massive transformation that is occurring in human institutions today. Blending theory and practice in numerous examples and industry models, they look closely at every ...
Ranking at Amazon 936973
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Berrett-Koehler Pub
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September 1995 - Hardcover
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Management Skills
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By Block, Peter
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Ranking at Amazon 1472042
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Jossey-Bass
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May 1995 - Hardcover
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Consulting
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