Comments on: Taking 100% responsibility

By: mrjefe

mrjefe — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:03:36 +0000

Agreed wholeheartedly. I would imagine that the tendency to advantage of the situation to be a tempting proposition.
Several years ago, while running the high tech division of a PLC in Malaysia, I had to contend with some 10 GMs on a day-to-day basis. At some point, it became evident to me that the onus of monitoring needed to shift towards the focused and not vice versa.

By: Dave Jilk

Dave Jilk — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:55:44 +0000

A corollary is that taking 100% responsibility should explicitly include monitoring whether the other person is also taking responsibility, and if they are not, to call them to task for it. Some people sense that you are willing to take 100% responsibility and take that as an invitation to take a small or 0% responsibility.

By: mrjefe

mrjefe — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 05:48:40 +0000

Multi-tasking does have its downs…