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"Peter Block gets down to the very few things that are really important in life and work: courage, greatness, and meaning. He challenges us to take responsibility for our- selves and to be as good-even great-as we can be"-Cliff Bolster, vice-president, human resources, Bath Iron Works Corp.
"This book presents a path to the empowerment of each employee," Peter Block writes in the Preface. "The Empowered Manager is written for two kinds of people: first, for executives involved in running an organization and daily struggling with how to create and leave behind an organization they personally believe in, one that expresses their deepest values about work, achievement, contribution, and the spiritual dimensions of life.... "The book is also written for those of us
who work for a living and are managers in the middle. My intent is to offer both ideas and practical ways to support the belief that we have some control over our destiny... It is easy and seductive at times to experience a sense of pessimism about the organization ever becoming the kind of place we wish it to be. It seems often that other people are driving the business, not us, and that our survival is, in fact, in someone else's hands. The promise of this book is that it holds an antidote to the malaise of bureaucracy. Within each of us is the ability to create an organization of our own choosing."
ISBN: 01555420192
