EMPOWERMENT: BELIEVING IN HUMAN POTENTIAL If you want to make great gains in human performance - and Im talking about 500 percent, not 5 percent - you have to change fundamentally the way you think about people. You have to believe that people are the most valuable organizational assets, and that they capable of immense achievement. And you have to help them believe it, too. In other words, you have to see the oak tree in the acorn, and you have to understand the process of helping that acorn become the giant oak tree. This is why I say that it is not enough just to treat people well and then use them well, like the old model taught us. You have to help people find meaning and fulfilment in what they do. They dont want to be used by the organization like victims or pawns. They want to have stewardship over their own resources. They want to feel they are making a personal contribution to something meaningful. And thats when you get real motivation and fulfilment. Thats when you truly release the human potential and all that tremendous energy and creative power that is hidden inside people, waiting to be released. [Source: Stephen Covey, Putting principles First]
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:45:17 +0000
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