Stewardship and Governance

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Introduction
Stewardship is choosing service over self-leadership. Peter block and Wilson
designed models in leadership that help in embracing contemporary leadership, visionary
leadership and customer driven business. Peter block developed a profound work that strikes
the popular rhetoric of management illusions and current fads to see real change in the
companies (Abbe, Bandeira, & Hall, 2016). Much of the enlightenment is experienced in
reality more than being cosmetic. Implementation of new philosophies and concepts is lost
perhaps because there is no management focus on the fundamentals. Wilson (2016) and
Block (1993) presented the models for stewardship that analyzed the potential challenges and
benefits that may occur while employing in an organizational setting. The block model
currently work in organizational setting which is a familiar analysis of the stewardship
principles (Farkas, 2016).
The principles of stewardship according to Peter Block revolve around wealth, power
and purpose. He also offers a concept of stewardship as a model of real reform. Stewardship
as choosing service over interest is not very easy. It is extremely well written and the model
has a well presented rationale. The model deals with control, freedom, service, self-interest
and governance. The model is about a harsh reality that includes the redistribution of power,
wealth and purpose. It is about choice and stewardship and especially the choice of
responsibility over entitlement (Fitzpatrick, 2014). It is about service and accountability.
The highlights in Block model serve as a significant model for the future of the
organizations. In stewardship, the stewards is entitled to hold something in trust for another.
It is the willingness to be accountable in service or in kind for the larger organization or
community. Changing the system of governance in leadership requires watching, planning ,

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evaluating and controlling actions of others. Integrating the management in stewardship
requires capacity building and governance of others (Glinkowska, & Kaczmarek, 2015).
The principle of external addition is a practical method of overcoming the incompleteness of
formal stewardships). This principle boils down to the fact that any control stewardship is
ultimately insufficient to accomplish the tasks assigned to it, but this drawback can be
eliminated due to the inclusion of a black box in the control circuit. For example, the
development of a production plan based on mathematical models always requires a certain
addition due to “external control” to adapt (correct) model calculations to conditions that are
not formalized or due to changes in some of them under the influence of the external
environment. The “external control” element is embedded in the decision making chain as a
“black box”, since it cannot be precisely defined (Harrison, 2018).
The principle of stewardship indicates that control is associated with several finite
paths or alternatives to the transition of the system to the final state. Understanding this
principle in the study of control systems extends the concept of optimal control to
optimization. This procedure is accompanied by the development of specific groups of
criteria for different paths of transition from the initial to the final state. In general, the
principles outlined are interrelated, complement each other and are the fundamental basis for
the study of the management system (Keribin, Brault, Celeux, & Govaert, 2015).
Block Model Principles
A Block model is a scientifically based assumption put forward to explain any
phenomenon or process that, after testing, may turn out to be true or false. The Block model
acts as the original wording, the draft principle or the law to be opened. With the Block