As some of you might know I am a big Peter Block fan. I haven't yet read Stewardship so this review by Dave Pollard makes it a must read for me !
Way back then, Block had already learned what I was a decade from realizing, that entrepreneurship is natural to all of us, and that hierarchy, money, growth and self-interest are not necessary ingredients of true entrepreneurship but rather obstacles to its effectiveness
One of the hardest parts, he says, is convincing managers to give up managing (in favour of stewardship) and at the same time, ironically, convincing line employees to give up comfortable dependency, where they're not really responsible for anything. It's a difficult trade-off, and I am sure it would take enormous patience to pull this off, but Block is the master, and he's covered all the angles.
I agree but the issue is that every one can be entreupreurial in only a particular area or his domain how does one identify that? Like Shiv Khera's statement "Winners do not do different thinngs. They do things differently." The issue is what is it that you can do differently or what American consultnat Steve Pavolina says," What is uniquely you"? Though it is what literally education implies, it does not happen in practice unfortunately.
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