Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block · Audiobook preview

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Community: The Structure of Belonging
Authored by Peter Block
Narrated by Tamberla Perry

0:00 Intro
0:03 Community: The Structure of Belonging
0:17 Welcome
22:56 Introduction The Fragmented Community and Its Transformation
41:50 Part One: The Fabric of Community
45:39 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

As a response to the increasing violence in our culture, the widening ideological divides, and the growing gap in economic well-being, there is greater awareness that a deeper sense of community is desperately needed. But even as we acknowledge the need to build community, the dominant on-the-ground practices about how to engage people, civically and organizationally, remain essentially unchanged. We still believe community is built with better messaging, more persuasion, and social events for people to get to know each other better. All of which is naïve.

In this new edition, Block draws on a decade of putting these ideas into practice to emphasize what has worked and extract those thoughts that were nice but had no durability. He explores how technology, instead of bringing us together, has driven us into more isolation. New examples show that community building can be a more powerful way to address social problems than more traditional policies and programs. And encouragingly, Block insists this is really simple, once we decide it is essential. He offers a way of thinking that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Peter Block is a citizen of Cincinnati and the author of Flawless Consulting, Stewardship, The Empowered Manager, The Answer to How Is Yes, and coauthor of The Abundant Community and An Other Kingdom. A partner in the training company Designed Learning; he is an Emeritus Board Member of Elementz, an urban arts and hip hop center; a founding member of Cincinnati’s A Small Group; a Board Member of LivePerson; a faculty member of Common Good, a new initiative for community builders; and a founding partner in Economics of Compassion, a pathway into an alternative economy.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

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Language: English
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Audio
Published on: July 17, 2018
ISBN: 9781523095551
Duration: 7 hr, 36 min
Genres: Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior, Social Science / Customs & Traditions, Social Science / Sociology / General