Stewardship : choosing service over self-interest

Stewardship : choosing service over self-interest / Peter Block.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Block, Peter, 1939-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, [2013]
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:BK business book.
Subjects:
Industrial management.
Industries > Social aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Organizational Behavior.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Leadership.
Industrial management
Industries > Social aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Welcome; Stewardship; Service; Introduction to the Second Edition: What Has Changed?; 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 PatriarchyCreating 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 WeekThe 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 Emotional Work of Stewardship; The Trail Is Inside Out; Facing the Wish for Dependency and Dominance; Freedom's Just Another Word for Escape from Freedom; Unstated Emotional Wants: Breaking the Pattern; Just Say No; I Want My Mentor; SEVEN: Redesigning Management Practices and Structures; Full Disclosure; Management Practices.
  • Changing Basic ArchitectureBoss 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: Creating Accountability with Self-Control; Money Is about Control; The Money Is the Message; Building Widespread Financial Stewardship; Living within the Law; TEN: Human Resources: Ending the Practice of Paternalism; Institutional Caretaker; A New Purpose and Role; The Structure of Human Resources.
  • Human Resource Practices That Support StewardshipELEVEN: Compensation and Performance Evaluation: Overturning the Class System; 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: When the Disease Becomes the Cure; Nothing Is Next; The Open Office; Patriarchy Re-creating Itself; THIRTEEN: Re-creating Our Organization through Stewardship.

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