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Peter Block

In addition to The Abundant Community, co-authored with John McKnight, Peter Block is the author of Flawless Consulting, Community, Stewardship and The Answer to How Is Yes.

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Interview with New Scoop member, Peter Block

Peter Block answers a few questions from New Scoop, a Calgary-based grass roots news co-op, giving...

Dancing into Freedom

Peter Block discusses the need for vision and unity in the pursuit of an alternative economy....

From Consumption to Community

Mobility, progress, even optimism are obstacles to community and real connection. Neighborliness, memory, place are the...

The Alternative Story

Peter Block discusses shifting our goals from transformation to invitation, as well as the need for...

Uncredentialed Thoughts

Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss the inspirational nature of friendship and the replacement of “hope”...

Commodifying Love

Peter discusses commodifying love in an interview with Travis Reed.

The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook & Companion

In this time of free agency, outsourcing, and cross-functional work teams, consulting has become a part...

Freedom and Accountability at Work, with Peter Koestenbaum

In this profound book, Peter Koestenbaum and Peter Block offer you a new perspective for viewing...

The Empowered Manager

Block introduces the path to empowerment and shows managers the inherent pressures that discourage initiative, dull...

The Answer to How Is Yes

Modern culture’s worship of “how-to” pragmatism has turned us into instruments of efficiency and commerce—but we’re...

Stewardship: Choosing Service over Self-Interest

Stewardship was a provocative, even revolutionary book when the first edition was published twenty years ago...

Flawless Consulting 3rd Edition

For over three decades Peter Block’s “Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used” has...

The Abundant Community

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Building a Healthy and Just Community

Highlights from John and Peter’s May 29, 2012 Conversation with Mike Butler, Police and Fire Chief,...

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Most communities can be compared to a football game where 30,000 people who need the exercise turn up to watch 36 people who don’t.

Peter Kenyon

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

Italian Proverb

Though the commons is everywhere, it is nonetheless little noticed. For economists, it is a kind of inchoate mass that awaits the vivifying hand of the market to attain life. Forests are worthless until they become timber, just as quiet is worthless until it becomes advertising.

Jonathan Rowe, Our Common Wealth

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

Henry Miller

Lost luggage is an initiation ritual. It is an invitation to a simpler life.

Madeline Nold

All consciousness begins with an act of disobedience.

Carl Jung

If your time hasn’t come, not even a doctor can kill you.

Meyer A Perlstein

Revolution is not capturing institutions, it is discovering free space and enlarging it.

Paul Goodman

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Adrienne Rich

I fear one day I’ll meet God, he’ll sneeze, and I won’t know what to say.

Ronnie Shakes

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

The power to call people a problem is the most injurious thing you can do.

John McKnight

Questions are fateful. They determine destinations. They are the chamber through which destiny calls.

Godwin Hlatshwayo

Every time you add a highway lane, you slow down traffic.

Bross’s paradox

If I am ever stuck on a respirator or life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged-but not until I get down to a size eight.

Henriette Mantel

When we meet, I am talking to myself and you are spying on me.

Leroy

Education is never neutral. It always involves a project…either keep things the same or change them.

Paolo Friere

A part of kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

Our communities are broken. For the ones that look whole, the price is being born somewhere else.

Jim Keene

I have tried to teach service to my husband and revolution to my son.

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Leadership is willingness to have faith in a future we do not understand.

Clint Kemp

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