Even though empowerment is both desirable and necessary for effective leadership and organizational health, it is often not employed by some leaders. The barriers to empowerment must therefore be overcome and removed. Roger Gill asserts that “barriers to empowerment include bureaucracy, risk aversion, the need for control over others, fear of a loss of control,…
Barbara Kellerman observes that “there’s something odd about the idea that somehow leadership can be distinguished from coercion, as if leadership and power were unrelated.”[1] I take issue with her actual statement, but not with its implication. Despite the position some may take, that coercion can sometimes be necessary, (as with a college football coach wanting a…
Spiders are amazing creatures, though they may also be annoying. Five minutes after I passed through the door to my garage, I needed to return into the house for something. As I was passing through the door, a cobweb caught my face. Within five minutes, an (industrious and invisible) spider had navigated my personal space!…