Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance. — 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 the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over… — 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
Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater… — 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 plans to… — 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 say "no".… — Peter Block 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
If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
