On Empowerment

I came upon this awesome quote and had to share it. It's sage advice for parenting, counseling, working as a humanitarian, or generally acting as a leader:

Go to the people,
Live among them,
Learn from them,
Start from where they are
Work with them
Build on what they have
But of the best leaders, when the task is accomplished, the work completed;
The people all remark:
"We have done it ourselves."

--Lao Tsu