“Empowerment” seems to be the latest people management buzzword. And it’s an important consideration for open organizations, too. After all, we like to think these open organizations thrive when the people inside them are equipped to take initiative to do their best work as they see fit. Shouldn’t an open leader’s goal be complete and total empowerment of everyone, in all parts of the organization, doing all types of work?
Not necessarily.
Source: https://opensource.com/open-organization/19/4/managed-enabled-empowered