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Peter Block

Peter Block

Less Leadership and More in the Name of Sophia

Peter Block -
Suppose that instead of focusing on the functions and actions of leaders, we reconstruct our basic notion of leadership? Suppose we drew more on Sophia, the Old Testament model of wisdom and gifts of the feminine? This article from imagineONE...
John McKnight

Community Abundance Is Its Gifts

John McKnight -
Abundant communities start with making visible the gifts of everyone in the neighborhood—the families, the young people, the old people, the vulnerable people, the troublesome people. Everyone. We do this not out of altruism, but to create the elements...
Peter Block

The Club Is Not the Club

Peter Block -
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Peter Block

The Point Is the Place

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John McKnight

Fallibility: The Value of Imperfection

John McKnight -
The capacities of an abundant community are the core elements that need to be visible and manifest to create functional families and neighborhoods. One of the capacities of an abundant community is the ability to accept people’s fallibility.   A conspicuous...
Peter Block

More Health, Less Management, Please

Peter Block -
The Columbia Journalism Review included in a recent issue a positive report on how health care is reforming. The report is distributed by the Commonwealth Fund. Well meaning, hopeful by design, but interesting to these eyes for its narrow...
Peter Block

The Economy Is in Our Hands, We Just Don’t Know It

Peter Block -
If you believe the news, the future of the economy is in the hands of President Obama, Chairman Bernanke of the Federal Reserve, Prime Minister Cameron in Britain,  Italian and Greek debt, the G5, BRIC, and everyone else but...
Peter Block

The Fall of JoePa and a Return to Common Sense

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On November 9, Joe Paterno, legendary football coach of Penn State, got fired. His boss, the president of Penn State, also got fired. The reason they got fired was that eleven years ago, when they were told that their...
Peter Block

Comment: How Wall Street Occupied America by Bill Moyers

Peter Block -
Bill Moyers is one of our strongest voices for democracy and a culture of care for the commons. Read this and weep:  How Wall Street Occupied America by Bill Moyers, The Nation, November 21, 2011. Excerpt posted November 2, 2011 at http://www.thenation.com/article/164349/how-wall-street-occupied-america?page=0,0
Peter Block

Is There Too Much Parenting?

Peter Block -
I want to open a conversation about parenting. Not about what is good or bad parenting, but rather about the idea that today’s obsession about parenting has gone too far. My qualifications for this discussion are a bit thin. Most...
Peter Block

What in the Name of Reform

Peter Block -
I would like to whisper a quiet caution to those of us who are investing in institutional or structural reform efforts. There is an intensifying stream of efforts to reform our institutions. In theUSthere is government reform, education reform,...
Peter Block

Six Conversations That Matter: A Quick Review

Peter Block -
There is a great deal written and practiced about creating new conversations, all of which is valuable and holds the same spirit as what is outlined here. For example, for some time there has been an important dialogue movement...
Peter Block

Like-mindedness, Technology and the Risk to Community

Peter Block -
We live in a time of growing like-mindedness, which we believe to be a good thing. We want to be with people who have common interests, views, values, you name it. Plus with our new technology, finding and meeting...
John McKnight

Enterprising Economy

John McKnight -
The community is the natural nest for hatching new enterprise — it is the birthplace and home of small business, which provides the largest growth in employment. Friends and family often provide the capital and sweat equity to start...
John McKnight

5 Questions to Awaken Your Functional Family

Peter Block -
The path to restoring function to the family in a citizen society, not a consumer society, is quite simple. It begins with five questions.   1. What functions can we put back into the hands of young people?  Whether they are our kids...
John McKnight

The Good Life? It’s Close to Home

Peter Block -
When family members do not work or live well together we sometimes call the family dysfunctional. We prescribe professional help for the family or advocate for social policies that would support it—child care, parental leave, extended unemployment insurance, debt...
Peter Block

Peter Block Review: Agenda for a New Economy

Peter Block -
In the beginning of Agenda for a New Economy, David Korten says he has written this book “to break the silence and open the unmentioned possibility that it is time to let go of Wall Street and build a...
Peter Block

The Economics of Neighborliness

Peter Block -
We cannot build strong neighborhoods and communities while laboring under the principles of traditional economics. The dominant economic thinking begins with a religious belief in scarcity and self-interest. This rules most modern economies and continues to dominate what we...
Peter Block

Faster Than a Speeding Byte

Peter Block -
In 1938 the world was in a depression, war was breaking out in Europe and Al Capone, the gangster, ruled at home. Tough times. In the same year there emerged two comic book superheroes, Superman and Batman. They were...
Peter Block

The Bin Laden Effect: In Praise of Our Government

Peter Block -
The death of Osama bin Laden completes a painful chapter in our history. The reaction of many is celebration. Some will use this occasion to warn of more fear to come. I, however, would like to take hold of...
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