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#responsibility
Esl Podcast 752 – Working With Unreliable People
To drop the ball
Paul: Oh, no. I know Noel. I used to work with him in the Columbus office. He was always dropping the ball on his responsibilities and I was always having to cover for him.
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
The history of the moral feelings (man is to be made responsible for nothing)
The Fable of Discretionary Freedom.—The history of the feelings, on the basis of which we make everyone responsible, hence, the so-called moral feelings, is traceable in the following leading phases. At first single actions are termed good or bad without any reference to their…
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (wikipedia)
Responsibility assignment matrix (raci)
A responsibility assignment matrix[1] (RAM), also known as RACI matrix[2] /ˈreɪsiː/ or ARCI matrix or linear responsibility chart[3] (LRC), describes the participation by various roles in completing tasks or deliverables for a project or business process.[4] It is especially…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Knowing our paradigms widens the picture
The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their…
Dependence, independence and interdependence
On the maturity continuum, dependence is the paradigm of you—you take care of me; you come through for me; you didn’t come through; I blame you for the results. Independence is the paradigm of I—I can do it; I am responsible; I am self-reliant; I can choose. Interdependence is…
Proactivity means responsibility for our lives
While the word proactivity is now fairly common in management literature, it is a word you won’t find in most dictionaries. It means more than merely taking initiative. It means that as human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our…
Taking initiative is not being pushy
Our basic nature is to act, and not be acted upon. As well as enabling us to choose our response to particular circumstances, this empowers us to create circumstances. Taking initiative does not mean being pushy, obnoxious, or aggressive. It does mean recognizing our…
Holding people responsible is affirming
Holding people to the responsible course is not demeaning; it is affirming.
Reactive language absolves responsibility
The language of reactive people absolves them of responsibility.
Reactive language as self-fulfilling prophecy
A serious problem with reactive language is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. People become reinforced in the paradigm that they are determined, and they produce evidence to support the belief. They feel increasingly victimized and out of control, not in charge of…
Love is a verb
In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They’re driven by feelings. Hollywood has generally scripted us to believe that we are not responsible, that we are a product of our feelings. But the Hollywood script does…
Concern at least as big as influence
Though they may have to prioritize the use of their influence, proactive people have a Circle of Concern that is at least as big as their Circle of Influence, accepting the responsibility to use their influence effectively.
Response-able for our own lives
I know this idea is a dramatic paradigm shift for many people. It is so much easier to blame other people, conditioning, or conditions for our own stagnant situation. But we are responsible—“response-able”—to control our lives and to powerfully influence our circumstances by…
Covering up a mistake is a second mistake
But not to acknowledge a mistake, not to correct it and learn from it, is a mistake of a different order. It usually puts a person on a self-deceiving, self-justifying path, often involving rationalization (rational lies) to self and to others. This second mistake, this…
Admit and correct mistakes at once
Our response to any mistake affects the quality of the next moment. It is important to immediately admit and correct our mistakes so that they have no power over that next moment and we are empowered again.
Two creations and the circle of influence
To the extent to which we understand the principle of two creations and accept the responsibility for both, we act within and enlarge the borders of our Circle of Influence. To the extent to which we do not operate in harmony with this principle and take charge of the first…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Drowning in collective pain
How come, I asked, you are so disgusted with yourself when you can’t even remember who you are? True, I had long forgotten who I was; let alone why I was so despicable. In a flash I understood that this was no longer my own pain. I had sunk through the bottom of personal…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Situations mitigate but don't excuse
It’s worth stressing that although Zimbardo argues we have underestimated the power of social situations because we overestimate the power of individual dispositions, that does not mean he thinks people are not accountable for their behaviour. All the situational approach says…
We are what we do
‘We are responsible for our actions not because they are our products but because they are us, because we are what we do.’9 However, her view is not an excessively romantic one. Self-creation is not heroic but necessary. ‘Every human being must make himself into someone in…