But simply understanding the need for distributed responsibility is not sufficient if leaders don’t understand what it means to demonstrate responsibility themselves. One way of demonstrating ...

Responsibility OCD involves an exaggerated sense of responsibility and a fear of unintentionally causing harm to others. To some extent, we all feel responsible in life, whether for our loved ones’ ...

For all of us, failure can seem to be a stunning and unexpected upset. Assuming denial is impossible, the natural tendency is to blame the outcome on some transient situational characteristic (e.g., ...

2020 was a year that prompted a reshifting of values for everyone globally - not just COVID-19 related, but in social justice movements, as well. As with the changing of the tides, the expectations of ...

Ownership, in its simplest form, means taking responsibility for the work on your plate and following it through to completion. However, in the context of leadership, ownership takes on a much broader ...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), also known as corporate conscience, refers to a management idea that sees companies integrating social and environmental factors into their operations. CSR ...

Executives have long touted corporate social responsibility—anything from corporate donations granted on behalf of a company to designated days for employees to volunteer in local communities—as a way ...

It's quite common for us to operate with the rather self-conscious notion that "it's all about me", so it's very easy to blame ourselves, and much harder for us to gain a perspective on our relative ...

Interested in these topics? Go here. In his response to my recent post, Sandeep Gautam raises two interesting counter-arguments (or "quibbles," as he calls them). The purpose of the present post is to ...