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Michael Bungay Stanier | Episode 3

Coaching Conversations with Jim Knight

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Are You Giving Up Power and Control?

In theory nobody's against empowerment and practice what empowerment means is giving up power and control to another person. Part of it is going, I am willing to step into what you know Robert Greenleaf called servant leadership - my job is to make this other person leave better than when she arrived. But in the higher level of your brain the prefrontal cortex that right up here says don't do that. You've got a you're overcoming a primitive wiring here that says, and no stage should you give up power and Control.

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