The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters | 
| Author: Peter Block
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Category: Book
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Format: Illustrated
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Pages: 194
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1576752712
Dewey Decimal Number: 370
EAN: 9781576752715
ASIN: 1576752712
Publication Date: October 2003
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People keep asking "How?" as a defense against living their life, says best-selling author Peter Block. In this witty, insightful award-winning book, Block shows that many standard solutions and improvement efforts, reinforced by most of the literature, keep people paralyzed. Here he places the "how to" craze in perspective and teaches individuals, workers, and managers ways to act on what they know. This in turn allows them to reclaim their freedom and capacity to create the kind of world they want to live in. Block's "elements of choice" - the characteristic of a new workplace and a new world based on more positive values - include self-mentoring, investing in relationships, accepting the unpredictability of life, and realizing that the individual prospers only when the community does.
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 Top of the stack! June 5, 2008
Peter Block is a wizard! A book filled with insights, thoughts and questions that will make you pause and reflect. If you are leader in any capacity- READ this book.
Peter uses mind bending questions to provoke deep thought about your individual and organizational purpose. "What are the crossroads that I find myself at?" "What is the 'no' that I have been postponing?" "What is the question, that if I had the answer, would set me free?"
Peter has used these and other questions (all listed in the book) with schools, city governments, non-profit organizations, places of worship and businesses.
Try a question or two at your next meeting! Change the context of the conversation!
This is a book full of optimism girded in practical reality. Challenge yourself. Build community. Read this book, share the concepts!
And if you ever get the chance to see Peter in person, do it! This quiet, unassuming man, with a gentle grandfatherly approach, is a wonder.
 Transformation occurs through quality questions May 26, 2008
This is an easy to read, practical book. The concept of focusing on what instead of how is empowering. As I flipped through the pages I could clearly notice the empowering nature of what it takes to ask the right questions. In asking how questions--we give away our power because how questions assumes that someone knows better or have a better experience or knowledge about something--whatever. What questions are empowering and lead to possibilities, individual role and responsibility and freedom. The book advances that in the twenty first century we need to move from the mechanistic way of doing things to become artist and architects in creating new and empowering situations that engage our better nature and lead us to adding and creating value.
 My review. September 27, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I re-read a lot of the first few chapters because I wasn't grasping what the author was trying to say. Hang in there, though, it all comes together later in the book. By the way, there is probably already a copywrite on it, but a more appropriate title for the book is "Learning how to think outside of the box".
The importance of dialog February 19, 2007
Peter Block aptly reminds us how important it is to ask the right questions, listen to the answers, take time to engage in authentic conversation that goes beyond ping-pong talking to deep discussions and ongoing dialog. Thanks and thanks again.
As always, Block is avant-garde AND persuasive February 7, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Block has done a fine job of discussing individual responsibility and helping get to the heart of the question "What are we really trying to accomplish?" rather than "How can we get this done and crossed off the list?" Too often, organizations are in such a rush to get things done that they end up putting the square peg in the round hole. They duplicate a solution that worked for a similar, but not identical problem etc. I feel like this book is the complimentary inverse of Block's "Stewardship" book. Whereas "Stewardship" looks at the organization and its effectiveness from a leadership/management point of view, this book addresses the personal autonomy and personal responsibility that all workers should have -- what Block's "Stewardship" book calls for as necessary for effective leadership (that the power and responsibilty are within the ranks of each worker). This book delves into this concept of pushing responsiblity down to each individual in the organization and what that means practically to the indvidual. As with "Stewardship," Block writes well and effectively delivers evidence and concrete examples along with his theory to make his points.
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