Peter Block

We get the leaders we create.

— Peter Block

It is hard to learn when we think we know something.

— Peter Block

What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.

— Peter Block

To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.

— Peter Block

How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?

— Peter Block

The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.

— Peter Block

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

— Peter Block

If you believe that saying no will get you shot, well, what a fine way to go.

— Peter Block

If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there.

— Peter Block

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose…

— Peter Block

“If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have impact on our institutions.”

— Peter Block

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

— Peter Block

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

The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the…

— Peter Block

If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.

— Peter Block

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

Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to…

— Peter Block

Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to…

— Peter Block

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

— Peter Block

Why follow the steps of another to find out where our dreams will lead us.

— Peter Block

Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

— Peter Block

As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.

— Peter Block

Questions draw us together. Answers push us apart.

— Peter Block

Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.

— Peter Block

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

— Peter Block

Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."

— Peter Block

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

— Peter Block

The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.

— Peter Block

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

— Peter Block

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

— Peter Block

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

— Peter Block

We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.

— Peter Block

The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business.

— Peter Block

I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the…

— Peter Block

Learning and performance will become one and the same thing. Everything you say about learning will be about performance. People will get…

— Peter Block

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give…

— Peter Block

We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others.…

— Peter Block

All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to…

— Peter Block

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

The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it…

— Peter Block