Radical Empowerment From Your Leadership: Understood by Few, Essential for All

What does it mean to possess radical empowerment? And what goes wrong when it’s defined and measured incorrectly top-down? These are the topics I am exploring today in terms of both security vendor and security team leadership, because as I personally look at job descriptions on the hunt for my next career milestone, I’ve seen radical empowerment as a character to possess.

In the wise words of Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that word, I do not think that word means what you think it means.”

I went to some experts on the topic.

“I don’t see a trendy business buzzword—I see a fundamental and often intimidating shift in organizational psychology,” said Dr. Stacy Thayer, Ph.D., Professor of CyberPsychology at Norfolk State University. “Essentially, it means handing over the keys: giving the people ...