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• The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.

  Peter Block

  Goal, Balance

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.38, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, Issues

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• What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.

  Peter Block

  Yesterday, Cages, Tomorrow

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• If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there.

  Peter Block

  Responsibility, Needs, Ownership

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• Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.

  Peter Block

  Believe, Mean, Self

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• We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.

  Peter Block

  Letting Go, Care, Belief

  Peter Block (1996). “Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self Interest”, p.19, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?

  Peter Block

  Outsiders

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.48, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.

  Peter Block

  What Matters, Long, Safety

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.57, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

  Peter Block

  Children, Teaching, Learning

  Peter Block (2002). “The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters”, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, Mean

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• Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

  Peter Block

  Biblical, Giving, Anecdotes

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.54, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.

  Peter Block

  Artist, Cake, Safety

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.134, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• ...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

  Peter Block

  Artist, Voice, Giving

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.172, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.

  Peter Block

  Teaching, Learning, Adventure

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• The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business.

  Peter Block

  Worry, Choices, Risky Business

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.17, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Why follow the steps of another to find out where our dreams will lead us.

  Peter Block

  Dream, Steps, Our Dreams

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• Learning and performance will become one and the same thing. Everything you say about learning will be about performance. People will get the point that learning is everything.

  Peter Block

  People, Performances

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• If you believe that saying no will get you shot, well, what a fine way to go.

  Peter Block

  Believe, Way, Saying No

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.45, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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