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Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.
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People successfully empower others when they understand the idea… because they correctly see what the key obstacles are and what is keeping them in place.
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In successful change efforts, an empowered group of people are very selective in how they spend their time.
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Focus means more is achieved quickly. Quick achievements provide so much: a feeling of accomplishment, a sense of optimism.
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In choosing well what to target first, you must satisfy the most basic criteria: achieving visible, meaningful, and unambiguous progress quickly.
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A decrease in negative stereotyping increases the chances of collaboration. So the achievement of the vision moves along.
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Once you see what works, once you have an optimistic sense that you can help create better organizations, it’s amazing what can happen.
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…there’s no evidence anywhere in the world, in any institution of management science, that existing massive employee evaluation and rating processes are effective.
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…while the science of management has advanced significantly in the past three decades, the practice of management hasn’t.
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…the single and most profound, distinct and clarifying finding – ever – is probably this one: 70% of the variance in team engagement is determined solely by the manager.
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