Quotes About Empowerment

The best and most effective way to lead is by letting people do things because they want to do them, not because you want them to.

Shortly before she died in 2011, Jean Jennings Bartik reflected proudly on the fact that all the programmers who created the first general-purpose computer were women: "Despite our coming of age in an era when women's career opportunities were generally quite confined, we helped initiate the era of the computer.

One person who encouraged the denizens of the counterculture

When our tools don't work, we tend to blame ourselves, for being too stupid or not reading the manual or having too-fat fingers... When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.

a leader is either very inclusive or a passionate visionary. But the best leaders could be both.

Such a leader knows how to empower groups to self-organize. When it's done right, a governance structure by consensus naturally emerges, as happened both with Linux and Wikipedia. "What astonishes so many people is that the open source model actually works," Torvalds said. "People know who has been active and who they can trust, and it just happens.

By expecting them to do great things, you can get them to do great things

Torvalds explained. "When people trust you, they take your advice." He also realized that leaders in a voluntary collaborative have to encourage others to follow their passion, not boss them around. "The best and most effective way to lead is by letting people do things because they want to do them, not because you want them to.

Grossman correctly noted that the iPhone did not really invent many new features, it just made these features a lot more usable. "But that's important. When our tools don't work, we tend to blame ourselves, for being too stupid or not reading the manual or having too-fat fingers. . . . When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.

Steve Jobs has designed a powerful computer that an illiterate six-year-old can use without instruction," Noer wrote. "If that isn't magical, I don't know what is.

Einstein later said, "it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority."57

El asunto es que la gente no se vea obligada a recorrer una cadena de mando —indicó uno de los técnicos de Intel, Ted Hoff—. Si uno necesita hablar con un gerente en concreto, va y habla con él.

Franklin's own idea was more expansive: he believed in encouraging and providing opportunities for all people to succeed based on their diligence

The Übermensch at any rate cannot be dissociated from the conception of Überwindung, of overcoming. "Man is something that should be overcome"—and the man who has overcome himself has become an overman.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

Maybe that's what they're afraid of. Maybe they don't want these children to make up their own minds. Maybe if they did that, the world would change.

I was an American citizen too; a citizen who had to watch his step, a citizen who had to distrust the police and the government, public opinion, and even the history taught in schools. It was odd that such negative thoughts would invigorate me. But knowing the truth, no matter how bad it was, gave you some chance, a little bit of an edge.

The first thing a black man and a poor man learns is that trouble is all he's got so that's what he has to work with.

A man must support his own weight, no matter how much money or power he has; that is the law of gravity.

These were people who faced their fears and created the world as they moved through it.

Black men of our day were never told , the skies the limit. Our limits were more like the inner lid of a coffin.

Leadership," said Nimitz, "consists of picking good men and helping them do their best for you. The attributes of loyalty, discipline and devotion to duty on the part of subordinates must be matched by patience, tolerance and understanding on the part of superiors."24

As if to underscore the seriousness of her charge, Abigail, only partially in jest, went on to assert: "If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Laidies, we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice or Representation.

The black intellectual, the black academic, must attach himself to the activity of the black masses.