The Empowered Manager

PRAISE FOR THE EMPOWERED MANAGER Peter Block is an original-and a wise and experienced observer of organizational life. He shares his unique and thoughtful perspective in this enlightening and provocative new edition of his classic, The Empowered Manager. Peter asks us to consider what could be possible if only we rekindled the entrepreneurial spirit and felt safe enough to speak out and take action. In this sense, empowerment becomes the foundation for leadership, and the brightest path to the future is when leadership becomes everyone's business. The Empowered Manager is at once a deeply philosophical and a highly practical book-one that needs to be read and applied by every thinking leader. - Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, Co-authors, The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations I write books on business and I've read hundreds of them. Peter Block's The Empowered Manager blows me away. This is a disruptive, radical, challenging book that, ultimately, is eminently practical, actionable, and useful to anyone seeking to change an organization for the better. - Joe Calloway, author of Be the Best at What Matters Most Peter Block reminds us anew that people define and shape organizations and that our success is in the hands of all our people. This is a book not only for managers 'at the top' but for all employees. - James Keene, City Manager, Palo Alto, California What we learned from Peter Block's book thirty years ago changed our lives. Three decades later those changes are deeply embedded in the they way we-all 700 of us-at Zingerman's work today. We would not be who we are, our organization would not be what it is, today had Peter not been generous enough to share his insights. - Ari Weinzweig, Co-founding partner, Zingerman's Community of Businesses; Author, Zingerman's Guides to Good Leading