Block is on target once again. He sounded a similar alarm in his earlier work Stewardship. If we are ever to create the kind of organizations we really crave we need to change our thinking from two perspectives: management must stop the caretaking and confront people with their freedom, and employees must stop waiting for a better parent to arrive and take responsibility for creating the culture they desire. As a consultant working with some traditonal patriarchal systems, these are messages and paterns, unfortunately, that many people do not want to hear nor confront.
