Empowerment

[Gilbert Brenson-Lazan]

Food for Reflection:

The first use that I know of, of the term and concept of empowerment, was 
in 1968 by Rev. Leonard Campos, who referred to it as creating a process 
(space?) in which a person or group of persons are able to develop their 
own power.

Somewhere along the line it got changed from a reflexive to a transitive 
verb and that was never the original idea as I understood it and it 
certainly was never meant to be a synonym of "delegate", as it is used 
nowadays in the jargon of modern OD fads.

Warm regards,

Gil


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Gilbert Brenson-Lazan - Socio-Gerente
AMAUTA INTERNACIONAL, LTDA
Bogotá, Colombia
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Apple Valley, Minnesota, EEUU
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