Why the Blame Game is Always a Lose-Lose Proposition
When things go wrong, whose fault it? Who’s to blame? And how do you decide? In our role as executive coaches and consultants, we are often called in to help sift through the wreckage of a failed project or other challenging situation that is careening off course. Time after time we discover that a fundamental source of the problem comes back to people’s basic lack of understanding regarding responsibility and accountability. For example, when we begin sorting through a scena
How What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You
What is it you don’t know that you don’t know that could be hurting you, right this very moment? Is it possible something is at play . . . something you’re utterly unaware of that could be sabotaging your progress or interfering with your ability to be at your best? The very nature of such questions can be troubling if we really explore them and yet, if we stop for a moment, it’s easy to recognize that knowledge falls into three basic categories: Things we know we know; Thing
The Power of Asking for Help in a Self-Help Society
Have you found ever yourself stuck and yet hesitant to ask for help? If so, you’re not alone. Many people go to great lengths to avoid reaching out to someone in their real world. Instead, they may thoroughly research the Internet hoping they can sort through the mountains of available information and readily understand it within its proper context. The challenge is, that while we may discover what we think is the correct answer, we may also fall prey to the phenomenon known
