Leaders need to inspire, enable and empower everything coming up from below in a company or a social movement and then edit and sculpt it with a vision from above into a final product.
I'm reminded of a 2003 story on the Onion: "Women Now Empowered By Everything A Woman Does".
This may be the book's most cogent statement, though a headline in The Onion put it better: "Women Now Empowered by Everything a Woman Does".
In 2003, satirical website the Onion ran the headline "Women Now Empowered by Everything a Woman Does", and the accompanying article captured the absurdity of this thinking.
Principals must be empowered to use everything they know about their faculty — including student achievement data — to determine which teachers they will retain, promote or, when necessary, let go.
"Our certified partners are more than just a resource to deliver Highfive, we want to empower them with everything they need to provide customers full service from purchase to deployment to maintenance".
Ratanjit S. Sondhe is the founder and CEO of Discoverhelp, Inc., a public speaker and the author of the new book, "How Oneness Changes Everything: Empowering Business Through 9 Universal Laws".
