Leadership in Action: Redefining Accountability - A Talk with Peter Block

Redefining Accountability: A Talk with Peter Block

EDITOR'S NOTE: Author, consultant, and speaker Peter Block believes that to become truly service driven, organizations must move beyond efforts that produce only cosmetic change and instead must create accountability at all levels by placing control close to the core work. Block, who helped spark interest in empowerment with his 1987 book The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work, will be one of the keynote speakers at the third annual Friends of the Center Leadership Conference. (For more information about the conference, see page 13.) His current work focuses on ways to bring ...