Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below. — Peter Block Change Copy Share Image
If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it. — Peter Block Belief Copy Share Image
If you believe that saying no will get you shot, well, what a fine way to go. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business. — Peter Block Business Copy Share Image
Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts. — Peter Block Balance Copy Share Image
Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and… — Peter Block Anecdotes Copy Share Image
Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening… — Peter Block Action Copy Share Image
We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it… — Peter Block Change the world Copy Share Image
If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy. — Peter Block Art Copy Share Image
All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to… — Peter Block Advice Copy Share Image
Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others.… — Peter Block Action Copy Share Image
I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew? — Peter Block Copy Share Image
Why follow the steps of another to find out where our dreams will lead us. — Peter Block Dream Copy Share Image
Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty. — Peter Block Adversity Copy Share Image
To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in. — Peter Block Change Copy Share Image
Learning and performance will become one and the same thing. Everything you say about learning will be about performance. People will get… — Peter Block Education Copy Share Image
The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole. — Peter Block Caring Copy Share Image
...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give… — Peter Block Art Copy Share Image
Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place." — Peter Block Architecture Copy Share Image
