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Informationen zum Autor Peter Block is an author, speaker, and a partner in Designed Learning, a training company that offers consulting skills workshops. He is the author of three bestselling books: Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used, The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work, and Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest. His most recent book is Flawless Consulting Fieldbook & Companion: A Guide to Understanding Your Expertise. Klappentext 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?" and still struggle to find purpose and act on what matters. Instead of acting on what we know to be of importance, we wait for bosses to change, we seek the latest fad, we invest in 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 rules. But we are gaining the world and losing our souls.Peter Block puts 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, intimacy, depth and engagement. Zusammenfassung 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? and still struggle to find purpose and act on what matters. Instead of acting on what we know to be of importance! we wait for bosses to change! we seek the latest fad! we invest in 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 rules. But we are gaining the world and losing our souls. Peter Block puts 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! intimacy! depth and engagement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Acting on What Matters Part 1: The question 1. How Is the Wrong Question 2. Yes Is the Right Question 3. Defenses Against Acting Part 2: Three qualities 4. Recapturing the Idealism of Youth 5. Sustaining the Touch of Intimacy . 6. Enduring the Depth of Philosophy Part 3: The requirements 7. Claiming Full Citizenship 8. Home School Yourself 9. Your Boss Doesn't Have What You Want 10. Oh, by the Way...You Have to Give Up Your Ambition 11. Care for the Whole (Whether It Deserves It or Not) Part 4: Social architecture 12. The Instrumental Imperative 13. The Archetypes of Instrumentality and Desire 14. The Role of the Social Architect 15. It’s a Mystery to Me Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About the Author About Designed Learning...
