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EQUIP THEM TO SUCCEED, NOT TO FAIL
Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
—Winston Churchill
ARE YOU EQUIPPING YOUR PEOPLE to succeed or setting them up to fail? Don’t align their hearts and minds with winning if you’re not willing to provide them with the knowledge, skills, resources, and authority to make it happen.
Consider this: If I give you a sense of purpose but not the resources to fulfill it, how will you feel? Frustrated. If I provide you with skills but not the authority to apply them, what will you think? That I don’t trust you. And if I give you authority without the knowledge and skills to use that authority wisely, what kind of decisions will you make? Bad ones.
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