ANSWER TO HOW IS YES by Block, Peter ISBN 1576751686
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People keep asking 'how?' as a defence against living their life. In this work Peter Block puts the 'how to' craze in perspective and teaches individuals, workers and managers ways to act on what they know, and reclaim their freedom and capacity to create a world they want to live in.
According to Peter Block, people keep asking 'how?' as a defense against living their life. In The Answer to How is Yes!, Peter Block puts the 'how to' craze in perspective and teaches individuals, workers and managers ways to act on what they know, and reclaim their freedom and capacity to create a world they want to live in. It shows that many of our solutions and efforts to improve keep us paralyzed. Much of our training is not needed. Asking 'how?' is waiting for our life to start. The question of 'how?' has pre-empted questions of 'why?' Most of the existing literature feeds our dependency. The Answer to How is Yes! confronts our passivity and argues for a life in which we choose accountability and demand more compelling purpose from our work. 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 how? but rarely why? We use how as a defense-instead of acting on what we know to be of importance, we wait until we've attended one more workshop, read one more book, gotten one more degree. Asking how keeps us safe-instead of being led by our hearts into uncharted territory, we keep our heads down and stick to the map. But we are gaining the world and losing our souls. In The Answer to How Is Yes, Block places the 'how-to' craze in perspective and presents a guide to the difficult and life-granting journey of bringing what we know is of personal value into an indifferent or even hostile corporate and cultural landscape. He raises our awareness of the trade-offs we've made in the name of practicality and expediency, and offers hope for a way of life in which we're motivated not by what 'works,' but by the things that truly matter in life-idealism, relationship, intimacy, and engagement. In his classic book Stewardship, Block showed how to free our organizations from stifling, control-obsessed bureaucracy and redesign them so that they are governed by the ideals of service, responsibility, accountability, and meaning. In The Answer to How Is Yes (inspired by a chapter in Stewardship), Block helps us realize similar ideals in our individual lives. Block offers a new way of thinking about our actions that helps free us from being controlled by the bombardment of messages about how we should live and act. He inspires us to say yes to our ideals and aspirations.
[edit] Book Details
[edit] Title
ANSWER TO HOW IS YES
[edit] Author
Block, Peter
[edit] ISBN
1576751686
[edit] Published
01/11/2001
[edit] Publisher
Berrett-Koehler, U.S.
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
18.99 (GBP)
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18.99 (GBP)
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