Stewardship. Choosing Service Over Self-Interest

Stewardship. Choosing Service Over Self-Interest
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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 spirit and alienating people from the work they do. Peter Block asserts that a fundamental shift in how we distribute power, privilege, and the control of money can transform every part of an organization for the better, and he examines the nitty-gritty of implementing these reforms. This revised and expanded edition includes a new introduction by Block addressing what has and hasn’t changed since the first edition and a new chapter on applying stewardship to the common good of the wider community. This visionary yet pragmatic book is sure to open your mind and change the way you do your job forever.

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Peter Block. Stewardship. Choosing Service Over Self-Interest

Foreword

Welcome

Stewardship

Service

Introduction to the Second Edition

It’s a Digital World

What Is Good for Business Is Good for the World

Side Effects

Goods We Can Build Upon

PART I. Trading Your Kingdom for a Horse

ONE. Replacing Leadership with Stewardship

Something More Is Required

The Essence of Stewardship

Choosing Partners

Choosing Empowerment

Choosing Service

We Don’t Act on What We Know

The Leadership Question

The Underbelly of Leadership

The Stewardship Answer

Three Organizational Challenges

TWO. Choosing Partnership over Patriarchy

Creating Order

Distributing Ownership and Responsibility

Partnership as the Alternative

Balancing Power

Four Requirements of Partnership

THREE. Choosing Adventure over Safety

The Wish for Safety

Entitlement Is Empowerment Run Aground

Choosing Empowerment

Stewardship Begins at Home

FOUR. Choosing Service over Self-Interest

A Model of Stewardship

Teaching Revolution to the Ruling Class

The Realm of Management

Rank without Privilege

Connecting the Heart and the Wallet

The Point

PART II. The Redistribution of Power, Purpose, and Wealth

A CASE STUDY. Sometime Later in the Week

The Need

The Players

The Squeeze

The Crisis

The Test

Possible Solutions

FIVE. Defining the Stewardship Contract

Principles for the Practice

The Stewardship Contract

Life in the Balance

SIX. Upsetting Expectations

The Trail Is Inside Out

Facing the Wish for Dependency and Dominance

Freedom’s Just Another Word for Escape from Freedom

Unstated Emotional Wants

Just Say No

I Want My Mentor

SEVEN. Redesigning Management Practices and Structures

Full Disclosure

Management Practices

Changing Basic Architecture

Boss as Banker and Broker

EIGHT. Rethinking the Role of Staff Functions

In the Service of Top Management

Police and Conscience to the Line

Mandated Supplier

Mandated Services

Offering Choice and Building Capability

Service Guarantee

NINE. Financial Practices

Money Is about Control

The Money Is the Message

Building Widespread Financial Stewardship

Living within the Law

TEN. Human Resources

Institutional Caretaker

A New Purpose and Role

The Structure of Human Resources

Human Resources Practices That Support Stewardship

ELEVEN. Compensation and Performance Evaluation

The Divine Right of Kings

Pay Reinforces Class Distinctions

Performance Not for Sale

Rank Individualism

Confusing Boss Evaluations with Performance

Pay for Empire

Reward Systems That Support Stewardship

The End of Caretaking

PART III. The Triumph of Hope over Experience

TWELVE. Cosmetic Reform

Nothing Is Next

The Open Office

Patriarchy Re-creating Itself

THIRTEEN. Re-creating Our Organization through Stewardship

Stewardship Strategy for Political Reform

Steps toward Political Reform

A CASE STUDY CONTINUED. The Answer to the Power Company Story

FOURTEEN. Cynics, Victims, and Bystanders

The Power of the Cynic

Rescuing the Victim

Facts Won’t Help

Treating Caution as a Choice

FIFTEEN. The Answer to “How?”

How

“How?” Is a Defense

SIXTEEN. Stewardship for the Common Good

The Business Perspective

The Point

References

The Author

The Artist

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MY PUBLISHING CAREER has spanned more than thirty-five years. For thirty of those years I have been an acquiring editor, and I have served as the lead editor for many hundreds of books. Yet this is the first time I have ever written the foreword for a book.

Why have I chosen to do something for this book that I have never done before? Two reasons. First, as a testament to the importance of this book. And second, because of gratitude for the profound impact of this book on Berrett-Koehler Publishers and on me personally.

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This is still our guiding concept today for all that we do at Berrett-Koehler.

There is a story behind why the ideas of Stewardship fell on such fertile ground at Berrett-Koehler. Before founding BK, I had been president of Jossey-Bass Publishers in San Francisco during its challenging transition from being an independent company to becoming part of the media empire of Robert Maxwell (who at the time was a chief rival of Rupert Murdoch) and being placed as a division of Maxwell Communications Corporation.

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