LinkedIn Post
Building a Culture That Drives Empowerment
“There are a lot of ideas worth listening to in this company” Companies have figured out what the best leaders knew all along: a strategy is only as good as its people and the systems that carry it out. A brilliant business idea takes scores of no less brilliant insights at every step of the execution in order to make it in the real world. These insights must come from people at every level of the organisation. The news is that business insights favour a particular state of mind that business psychologists call employee empowerment. They also agree that being empowered in ones work is not a permanent characteristic of any individual. Rather, it is the way our mind responds when certain conditions are present. Empowerment starts with the individual. From there, it can go out like a light or...