Quotes About Empowerment

There are some things in this world that we cannot fix, and they happen, and it is not our fault, though we still might have to deal with them. There are other things in this world that we can fix. And that is what good teachers like me are for.

Sometimes I heed the Spirit's desire, and sometimes I don't. Spiritual maturity is not getting to the point where you no longer experience this tension. Rather, maturity is becoming more sensitive to it and choosing more consistently to trust the leadership and empowering of God's Spirit—by stepping out in the midst of fear, aversion, and inadequacy to serve.

the greatest democratic socialist achievements occur through organizations that begin with the everyday praxis of unions and social movements; dismantle structures of racial, gender, sex, class, and imperial domination; welcome religious allies; renew the struggles for freedom, equality, and cooperative community; and care for the planet's ecological health.

Prepare Your Child for the Road, Not the Road for Your Child

Although the masculine form of appellation is typically used when listing the level titles of the various types of characters, these names can easily be changed to the feminine if desired. This is fantasy--what's in a name? In all but a few cases sex makes no difference to ability!

Near the end of his tenure as co-CEO of SAP, Jim Hagemann Snabe discovered that the German software giant had amassed more than fifty thousand key performance indicators (KPIs), covering every job across the company. Snabe was horrified. "We were trying to run the company by remote control," he recalls. "We had all this amazing talent, but had asked them to put their brains on ice.

How is it that in their personal lives, employees can be trusted to buy houses and cars, but at work can't requisition a $ 300 office chair without a manager's approval? If we thought about it for a minute, we'd realize this is stupid. Autonomy correlates with initiative and innovation. Shrink an individual's freedom and you shrink their enthusiasm and creativity.

Initiative, creativity, and valor can't be commanded.

There's no secret about what drives engagement. From Douglas McGregor's The Human Side of Enterprise to Dan Pink's Drive, the formula hasn't changed in sixty years: purpose, autonomy, collegiality, and the opportunity to grow.

The fault lies not with any particular manager, but with a management regime that empowers the few at the expense of the many, that prizes conformance over originality, that wedges human beings into narrow roles, robs them of agency, and treats them as mere resources.

You were put on this earth to do something significant, heroic even, and what could be more heroic than creating, at long last, organizations that are fully human?

Bringing the ATLAS detector to life required tons of leadership and creativity. What it didn't require was a pyramid. No one within the ATLAS consortium had the power to give an order. Everyone was a colleague and no one was a boss. Despite this, the ATLAS detector was completed on time and within budget.

Henry Ford once wondered querulously, "Why is it that whenever I ask for a pair of hands, a brain comes attached?

the single greatest threat to organizational resilience: the unwillingness or inability of senior leaders to write off their own depreciating intellectual capital. This failing would be less dangerous if subordinates felt empowered to challenge C-suite dogma, but most middle managers are disinclined to bite the hand that feeds them. Thus myopia, like authority, trickles down.

Mixtli a Ce-Malinali:

Life's a party. Invite yourself.

Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.

must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.

If you have to beg, then beg. If you have to barter, then barter. If you have to be creative, then be creative. Just don't be a victim of your circumstance.

Unlimited Power

When people talk about "reinventing" their career or their business, small boxes are often the root cause. What you build today will either empower or restrict you tomorrow. It will either serve as a platform for the next level of your success or as a box, trapping you where you are.

When you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them. Don't be a victim of your circumstances. figure it out, find a way, and make it happen.

when you argue for your limitation, you get to keep them.

When life happens, you can be either the author of your life or the victim of it. Those are your only two choices—accountable or unaccountable. This may sound harsh, but it's true. Every day we choose one approach or the other, and the consequences follow us forever.