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Community: The Structure of Belonging by: Peter Block  List Price: $26.95 Your Price: $17.79 You Save: $9.16 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 307 EAN: 9781576754870 ISBN: 1576754871 Label: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Manufacturer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: May 01, 2008 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Studio: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Sales Rank: 6111 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our communities--businesses, schools, social service organizations, churches, government--do not work together. They exist in their own worlds. As do so many individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions lost. This disconnection and detachment makes it hard if not impossible to envision a common future and work towards it together. We know what healthy communities look like--there are many success stories out there, and they've been described in detail. What Block provides in this inspiring new book is an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation: How is community built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are involved? He explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen. Average Rating:
 Rating: - what the world needs right now!Peter Block has given us a blueprint for building community on all levels, local, national and even global. And the world can use more of it with all the incivility and violence! Cudos to Mr. Block for the timing and the wisdom in the pages of this book. -John Renesch, author, Getting to the Better Future; compiler, Building Community anthology Rating: - College-level libraries strong in social science need this survey Most communities are fragmented in their structure and purposes, but communities can emerge from such fragmentation strong and purposeful. How are stronger communities built? COMMUNITY: THE STRUCTURE OF BELONGING tackles this subject, considering shifts in perspective, the impact of leadership choices, and what a healthy community looks like. College-level libraries strong in social science need this survey which considers changing ideas of community structure and the dynamics of transitions. Read More Rating: - Re-inventing leadershipI like this book because it allowed me to see the power of community. I am an entrepreneur and I saw that what this book offers is also what businesses must start focusing on and that is creating the structure for people to experience belongingness. There is so much an individual can do provided that the structure of the enterprise is focused on what people can do and offer. It made me reflect on my own way on relating with people. I became aware of myself, how am I being with others. ... Read More Rating: - The most Excellent Book that I have readWow! What a book. I didn't want to put the book down. I kept telling myself when does he get to the specifics. I'm a program director at a non profit and we are currently working on a new partnership with a low-income property management corporation. We are trying to create a self-sufficient community within these properties. I'm going to use Peter Block's Community suggestions he has in the book. He has an excellent view of how America rewards the the leaders (CEOs). Angela Rating: - Huge Implications for Business and Online CommunitiesI bought this book expecting to learn something about online communities. I wasn't disappointed. While Block only mentions them in passing, he has a lot to say about what makes them work. He spells out what makes communities work in a real world--it is the sense of belonging. People (customers) are engaging in online communities at phenomenal rate and this is impacting their relationship with the companies they do business with. In short, businesses are losing influence as communities ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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