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Enlighten and empower people

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Enlighten and empower people

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- [Instructor] The second way is enlightening and empowering people, focusing on people's skills, knowledge, and mindsets and empowering them for action. If I can only do one thing when adopting an adapting idle, it will be to work mostly between the ears of people of the organization, so they get it, the outcomes of service management, and get on with it, drive towards those outcomes. Enlightening and empowering people is especially important today. Years ago, computing was simpler. One person could actually get the whole system in mind. Today, systems are so complex that no one person can have them all in mind. So for example, if I'm a change manager, there can only be so much expectation that I can know and make the right choice around changes for Python or MongoDB, or Chef, or Puppet and so on. What I really should be good at is facilitation and to rely on others to bring the knowledge forward for their patch. So…

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