CEO’s Corner

“Employee empowerment” appears in practically every other article one reads in the business press these days. But if this term brings to mind hordes of marching, fist-waving employees, we, as business leaders, should re-think that image.

In one of his monologues, Garrison Keillor recalled a delicate encounter in the warming house at Lake Woebegone’s ice rink. Reflecting on the experience, he observed, “Sex is not a problem, it’s a mystery.” His message to the obsessed and the prudish was clear: Perception shapes reality.