How to Leverage Enabling Structures to Fulfill Values — what works

A pretty radical shift occurs when we stop thinking about the shoulds and supposed-tos of running a business and start thinking about what we want to enable for our customers or clients. There's a significant difference between ensuring I have the right policies in place and enabling client independence, confidence, and creativity.

She expanded the cultural imagination of a whole state (and beyond) because she asked what she could do instead of trying to make do

An enabling structure is a system that enhances human capacity and extends the imagination. It's a way of prioritizing a value or set of values and constructing a system for realizing that value. An enabling structure creates the conditions necessary for a desired outcome while defining that outcome in terms of a complex human value.