Peter Block Quotes About Learning

Quotes about: Learning

• We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

  Peter Block

  Relationship, Work, Communication

• We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, Yesterday

• Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create.

  Peter Block

  Block, Fall, Knowledge

• The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, Thinking

• We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Institutions, Ifs

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.92, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

• 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

• The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, People

• 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

• Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more fully alive.

  Peter Block

  Teaching, Learning, Understanding

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.50, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

• 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

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

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, Mean

• Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, People

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