Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute

"Empowerment means you have freedom to act. It also means you are responsible for results." This book provides a framework for empowerment, from making all organisational information widely available to enabling self-monitoring to complementing freedom with the guideposts of very clear values, goals......more

This book was an invaluable gift from a friend, the director of a successful, empowered organization. It's short, easy to read, and full of ideas worth slowing down to digest. Put it in action, and your workplace will be transformed. (It works well for families, too, btw.) Just ignore the typically i......more

Brief, practical and easy to understand. This is geared towards people who manage other people.......more

In many ways, this is a very good book, but there is something missing from it that makes it not as good and not as useful as it could have been. A great many business books like this one are told as fables, where instead of explaining a concept the way a textbook would, the author creates a fake bu......more

While I am not a fan of the narrative business or leadership book, I appreciate many of them because they focus on providing a big picture understanding of the concepts presented. I found this book to be a good example. I read this at the same time I am reading Teaming by Amy Edmondson - and I found......more