Comments on: The Small Man Builds Cages for Everyone

By: mrs button

mrs button — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:04:51 +0000

this is a beautiful, positive, uplifting place to be. thank you.

By: michelle

michelle — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:07:21 +0000

Thanks for the inspiration. I love quotations about empowerment.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:17:44 +0000

Very lovely. Excellent question: “Will this empower?” Thanks for the empowerment!

By: Ceil

Ceil — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:13:22 +0000

Excellent poem. I’ve always said I never keep score because I might be losing. If I don’t know I’m loosing I might win anyway.
I hate cages and yet I have probably built a few with out intending.
Fear, the strongest cage of all silences us with invisible cords of steel.

By: Joe Breunig

Joe Breunig — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:19:06 +0000

Another marvelous post; was not familiar with ‘key dropping’ prior to your article. I’m all for empowerment; being a professional in I.T. for many years, I have ‘broken the mold’ and willingly shared information with peers/co-workers. Most times, the looks that I received were a combination of fear and surprise. On rare occasions, some would ask why I did it. My reply – companies tend to be more willing to retain people who are willing and able to train others. It may sound or seem silly, yet many people are STILL afraid to speak in front of others. One great way to get over this fear is by tutoring individuals and then gradually move up to larger crowds.

By: Malwina

Malwina — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:38:45 +0000

Sharing these beautiful thoughts on empowerment is very empowering as such… One of my themes lately has been living out of fear (“building cages”) vs. living out of love, with an open heart (“dropping keys”), so your writing feels very inspiring. Thanks a lot!

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:09:17 +0000

This is beautiful, Chris. I have your site listed in the links section of mine, but I need to check in here more often myself. This dropping keys concept – and poem – is really what we (many of us) are doing. Thanks again.

By: Jeff Tong

Jeff Tong — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:01:05 +0000

Chris, Thank you for this dropped key. Sometimes we meander off the path of empowering others and need to be reminded. I try to drop a key everyday and hope that the person that sees it will hopefully pick it up and be free.

I think this is a great tip: “Give away your best work, and think about how you can give away even more of it”.

How do you know when to not give it away for free?

By: Neil J Lloyd

Neil J Lloyd — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:45:16 +0000

I have worked with both key droppers and cage builders within organisations and in my freelance work. In every case a key dropping culture has enjoyed more success, in productivity and financial terms as well as more human terms

By: Lina

Lina — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:58:51 +0000

I opened an e-mail from “key dropper” Elizabeth Potts Weinstein …and I found a key among the many keys she dropped that lead me to this site…thank you Elizabeth…and you Chris for writing/dropping keys… I needed this today!