Quotes about Empowerment

Once you've engaged with an organization or a relationship or a community, you owe it to your team to start. To initiate. To be the one who makes something happen. To do less is to steal from them. If you hide your spark, bury your ideas, keep your questions and notions from the team, you have hurt them as badly as if you had stolen a laptop and fenced it on eBay.

The right information brings knowledge. And knowledge is power. Sharing it is empowerment.

The power of this new era is simple: if you want to (need to, must!) lead, then you can. It's easier than ever and we need you. But if this isn't the right moment, if this isn't the right cause, then hold off. Generous and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish efforts of someone doing it just because she can.

Our society is struggling because during times of change, the very last people you need on your team are well-paid bureaucrats, note takers, literalists, manual readers, TGIF laborers, map followers, and fearful employees.

Pick me, pick me" acknowledges the power of the system and passes responsibility to someone else to initiate. Even better, "pick me, pick me" moves the blame from you to them. If you don't get picked, it's their fault, not yours. If you do get picked, well, they said you were good, right? Not your fault anymore. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

We seek out experiences and products that deliver more value, more connection, and more experience, and change us for the better.

The lesson is that one person with a persistent vision can make change happen, whether climbing rocks or delivering services.

You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to you.

Each of us can show up in our own way, but the choice is the same: to lead, to create work that matters, and to find the magic that happens when we are lucky enough to cocreate with people who care.

You are more Powerful than you think you are. Act Accordingly

In order to lead a tribe, no such rule applies. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change that you believe in.