As a response to the increasing violence in our culture, the widening ideological divides, and the growing gap in economic well-being, there is greater awareness that a deeper sense of community is desperately needed. But even as we acknowledge the need to build community, the dominant on-the-ground practices about how to engage people, civically and organizationally, remain essentially unchanged. We still believe community is built with better messaging, more persuasion, and social events to get to know each other better. All of which is naïve.
In this book, Community, Peter Block draws on a decade of putting these ideas into practice to emphasize what has worked and extract those thoughts that were nice but had no durability. He explores how technology, instead of bringing us together, has driven us into more isolation. New examples show that community building can be a more powerful way to address social problems than more traditional policies and programs. And encouragingly, he insists this is really simple, once we decide it is essential. He offers a way of thinking that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen.
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Posts: Peter Block
- Connection Before Content Without relatedness, no work can occur
- Don’t Give Advice Especially when it is sought
- I. Take Responsibility We need to take responsibility for the changes we wish to see in the world
- Introduction: Small Group Conversations Small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create
- Meetings and Conversations Serve Two Purposes There is a second purpose to any meeting which we often overlook
- Peter Block’s Four Ownership Questions Are you prepared to take responsibility for the learning and engagement of others?
- We All Have the Freedom to Choose If We Choose To The last of human freedoms
Books: Peter Block
Quotations: Peter Block
- A Gathering Serves Two Functions Peter Block
- Choose to Be Accountable Peter Block
- Connection Before Content – Without Relatedness, No Work Can Occur Peter Block
- Don’t Give Advice Especially when it is sought
- How Have I Contributed to the Current Reality? Peter Block
- How Leadership Begins Peter Block
- If We Cannot Say “no” Then “yes” Has No Meaning Peter Block
- Misuse of Our Power Peter Block
- Never Help: Fixing People Is a Form of Colonialism Peter Block
- Powerful Questions Evoke a Choice for Accountability and Commitment Peter Block
- Predicting or Controlling a Conversation Peter Block
- Questions Are More Transforming Than Answers Peter Block
- Relationship and Connectedness Are the Pre-condition for Change Peter Block
- The Question Is, What Qualifies as Action? Peter Block
- The Real Task of Leadership Is to Confront People with Their Freedom Peter Block
- Transformation Is About a Shift in Language and Conversation Peter Block
Videos: Peter Block
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Book Purchased: 15 September, 2015 ★
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