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empower, empowered, empowering, empowerment
Key goal of all organisations. Employees are empowered when they take ownership, usually by becoming competent. Customers are empowered by choice, shareholders by profit, dividends etc. Thus is the triple bottom line empowered. (See ducks in a row.)

We are all empowered by employment, education, a win at the races, a new set of spectacles or teeth, etc. Some are empowered by God; others are disempowered by Him. Faith empowers: the loss of it can empower equally. Ditto Reason. Hitler and Stalin were both empowered by 'transforming unwanted beliefs into beliefs that empowered them'. An est word.

'Transform unwanted beliefs to beliefs that empower you.'
- Neuro Linguistic Programming

'Empower thy sheep.'

(Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, Contemporary Clichés, Cant & Management Jargon page 119).