Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
Bill GatesRead
There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Empowering workers with information enhances their job satisfaction and productivity.
In this quote, Bill Gates emphasizes the importance of providing workers with the necessary information and tools to perform their jobs effectively. He argues that when employees are empowered, they find their work more engaging and are capable of achieving a higher level of performance. This highlights a proactive approach to leadership and management, focusing on enabling individuals rather than limiting their potential.
Themes
EmpowermentWorkersInformationProductivityEngagement
In practice
Example use cases
In a corporate training session to inspire managers.
More from Bill Gates
All quotes →The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill GatesRead
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.
Bill GatesRead
About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
Bill GatesRead
Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.
Bill GatesRead
These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.
Bill GatesRead
Similar quotes
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
Patrick StewartRead
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Jose Ortega Y GassetRead
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt
Immanuel KantRead
If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
Abraham LincolnRead
The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.
Nassim Nicholas TalebRead