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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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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
Ranking at Amazon 385232
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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 5337537
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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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Performance appraisals are used in the overwhelming majority of workplaces. Yet, most organizations that use appraisal--and a similar percentage of givers and receivers of appraisal--are dissatisfied...
Ranking at Amazon 884488
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Berrett-Koehler Pub
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October 2002 - Paperback
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Employee Evaluation
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By Block, Peter
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Best selling author and distinguished management consultant Peter Block fast forwards us to the business model of the future: a self-governing, accountable organization where power is shared equally...
Ranking at Amazon 202950
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audible.com
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March 2002 - Audio Download
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Management Skills
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By Block, Peter
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Personal growth in and out of the workplace has long been hampered by the constant question ""how?"" In The Answer to How Is Yes, Peter Block teaches readers how to act on what they know and reclaim...
Ranking at Amazon 1086173
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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 forviewing the workplace through the lens of philosophy so that youmay have a better understanding of how to reclaim your freedom...
Ranking at Amazon 1318742
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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 344983
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Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer
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October 2000 - Paperback
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Consulting
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By Block, Peter
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The second edition of the "consultant's bible" is here! For over fifteen years, consultants--both internal and external--have relied on Peter Block's landmark bestseller, Flawless Consulting, to...
Ranking at Amazon 208755
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Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer
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September 1999 - Hardcover
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Consulting
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By Wheatley, Margaret
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Block'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...
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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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Foreword by Peter Block This autobiography of one of the founders of the organization development (OD) profession offers a candid and personal view of both Roger Harrison's own development as a...
Ranking at Amazon 6406271
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Jossey-Bass
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May 1995 - Hardcover
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Consulting
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