Monday, May 24, 2010

Can You Influence Others Through Self Empowerment?

Can You Influence Others Through Self Empowerment?
by Russell Bishop

Last week, we posited that the only true way to become empowered is to become self-empowered. If ever there were a time where we need large numbers of self-empowered people, this may be it.

As is the case with many important elements of improvement, empowerment is one of those terms that has been hijacked by any number of people and in the process has become watered down, misused, abused and otherwise become meaningless.

In much the same was as "positive thinking" has become synonymous with fluffy psychobabble, so too has empowerment. However, we needn't allow misuse to allow a powerful and important bit of reality to fall into disuse or to be tarred with the cynicism of the critic without a cause.

Read the rest of this interesting post at Huffington Post HERE

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I really liked this!- Jill