Empowering Leadership

Leadership Styles

Empowering Leadership

Facilitate inpowerment and empower

Empowering Leadership is probably the most productive style of leadership.

"Business is people", said Konosuke Matsushita, the founder or Panasonic, about 100 years ago.

Since then, many great business leaders said the same in their own words.

If business is people, then empowering leadership is the key to a great business.
The slide below shows the major ingredients of employee empowerment and related leadership tasks.
It may look obvious, but it is rather hard to implement because there is a chasm to be crossed between "knowing how" and "doing".

The Master leads by purifying people's minds, filling their beliefs, weakening their ambitions, and making them become strong.

Lao Tzu

It's my responsibility to support the team behind Telegram.

Pavel Durov

The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well.

Jack Welch

If you give people tools, and they use their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

Bill Gates

Microsoft

The Loving Creator created us in his likeness. We are all loving creators by birth. To unlock their true potential, people need get empowered − from within in life, and from outside in hierarchies.

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

In the new knowledge economy, independent intrapreneurship and initiative is needed throughout the ranks of your organization. The First Step is the difference that makes the difference.

KoRe 10 Tips for Empowering Leadership

① Be a leader of leaders, not followers; be a coach, not a commander.

② Pursue a purpose, not power. Create a shared inspiring vision and encourage everyone to develop their own exciting visions.

③ Lead in a way that is inspiring, energizing, inclusive, enabling, supporting and shares initiative, power and control. Be informal and accessible.

④ Create opportunities to grow and an environment of high expectation, creative dissatisfaction, daring action, support and appreciation.

⑤ Encourage leadership everywhere. Harmonize Yin and Yang approaches to empowerment. Celebrate victories and reward victors.

⑥ Promote self-leadership, self-coaching and continuous learning attitudes and practices. Encourage people to think and act innovatively.

Employee Empowerment

Why Employee Empowerment

⑦ Teach and promote horizontal leadership approaches. Establish win-win mindset, eliminate win-lose conflicts between groups.

⑨ Model and foster self-leadership. Encourage taking responsibility instead of complaining. Allow people create change proactively and experiment with new ideas. Give people freedom to fail and restart wiser.

⑩ Help people to lead change. Play simulation games. Facilitate creation of coalitions of change leaders.

⑧ Exercise the loose-tight approach – manage both the expansion of ideas and actions that gives rise to potentially creative alternatives and the homing of the best options. Synergize diverse initiatives.

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How To Empower Innovation

To empower innovation, articulate an inspiring vision, prioritize innovation, allocate resources, and foster a creative-dissatisfaction culture that encourages curiosity, challenging assumptions, questioning, exploration, cross-pollination of ideas, venturepreneurial simulation, experimentation, and creative teamwork.

Empower employees to take ownership of their ideas and transform to intrapreneurs.

Use AImpowerment and keep removing barriers to innovation like bureaucracy, silo mentality, and fear of failure.