Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

by Marty Cagan

Leadership is about recognizing that there's a greatness in everyone, and your job is to create an environment where that greatness can emerge.

Great quote from Bill Campbell that summarizes the role of any facilitator and change agent. People can grow, you have to enable them to. Even plants need sunlight and water.

If you're running a process like SAFe, then this is unfortunately you, and truthfully, I have no idea why you would want to read this book, since what I describe here is the polar opposite both philosophically and practically.

I’ve seen this happen. Mixing and matching conflicting philosophies for the optics of “empowerment,” without realizing the effects of those conflicts. When this happens, teams get confused, demoralized, unmotivated, and will either leave or be seen as not being valuable.