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Employee empowerment and motivation are board level (strategic) issues

Chartered Management Institute

Individual empowerment includes “being valued” but also explores potential through training, fulfilling ambitions through career advancement, expressing and testing innovative ideas and achieving success and financial security. That is more than “being valued” which is basically having a clear job description and performance expectations.

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The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

Perform a knowledge-based SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis, comparing your organization’s knowledge to that of its competitors and to the knowledge required to execute your organization’s own strategy. These individuals may be future innovators.