Quotes About Empowerment

That one can truly manage other people is by no means adequately proven. But one can always manage oneself.

The responsibility is always mine, but the decision lies with whoever is on the spot.

Or—most tricky of all—a boss whom you admire fails in the crucial duty of a boss: to support, foster, and promote capable subordinates.

They were stepping up, not cowering down.

Teach us to demand our share of the gold, And forgive us our docility.

To be meaningful, teaching children to become literate is about the here and now, and what children can do with literacy to serve their interests.

The most important piece is to confirm what has been successful (so it will be repeated) and simultaneously assert the learner's competence so she will have the confidence to consider new

We too can love with the will even when we do not have loving emotions or feelings. We make this distinction toward ourselves quite easily, so we should be able to do it toward others too when necessary.

Ai xu?ng h?a ng?c ??u có th? hát lên: Tôi Ä'ã s?ng theo ý tôi.

The offspring of immigrant factory workers had a chance to go to college and become doctors, lawyers, executives, and even owners of the very companies where their parents and grandparents worked long hours for low pay.

The committed person doesn't play by the rules of the game. He is responsible for the game. If the rules of the game stand in the way of achieving the vision, he will find ways to change the rules.

alignment is the necessary condition before empowering the individual will empower the whole team. Empowering the individual when there is a relatively low level of alignment worsens the chaos and makes managing the team even more difficult:

people get used to having experts who can solve their problems for them; people can then easily lose motivation to develop their own capacities.

To empower people in an unaligned organization can be counterproductive.

To empower people in an unaligned organization can be counterproductive. If people do not share a common vision, and do not share common mental models about the business reality within which they operate, empowering people will only increase organizational stress and the burden of management to maintain coherence and direction.

Once people see the participatory nature of their thought, they begin to separate themselves from their thought. They begin to take a more creative, less reactive, stance toward their thought.

It's just not possible any longer to figure it out from the top, and have everyone else following the orders of the "grand strategist." The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.

The more willing you are for him to make a free choice, the freer he will feel. This can be especially difficult with subordinates, who are often conditioned to feel as though they must go along. But you can still help by creating the time and safety for them to develop their own sense of vision.

Great teachers create space for learning and invite people into that space.

leaders' work as teachers often starts with their recognition of an important capacity that is lacking in an organization.

Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought

Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.

A woman should be able to walk the streets of Eastvale stark naked if she wants, and no one has the right to touch her.