The Answer to How is Yes:
Acting on What Matters
By: Peter
Block 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? but rarely why? we use how as a defense -- instead of
acting on what we know to be of importance, we wait until we've attended one
more workshop, read one more book, gotten 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 map. But we are gaining the world and losing our
souls.
In "The Answer to
How is Yes," Block places 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 tradeoffs 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, relationship, intimacy, and engagement.
In his classic book
"Stewardship," Block showed how to free our organizations from stifling,
control-obsessed bureaucracy and redesign them so that they are governed by the
ideals of service, responsibility, accountability, and meaning. In "The Answer
To How Is Yes," Block helps us to realize similar ideals in our individual
lives. Block offers a new way of thinking about our actions that helps free us
from being controlled by the bombardment of messages about how we should live
and act. He inspires us to say yes to our ideals and aspirations.
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