Picture this: You are in therapy, discussing the impact of your early life on your adult identity, and you stumble across a memory in which your mother scolded you for getting a “bad” grade. Your ...

Jimmy Spithill’s leadership lessons from the America’s Cup and SailGP show how no-blame, high-accountability cultures accelerate performance under pressure on water or in business. Spithill, one of ...

UK MP Andy Burnham reflected on the decline of secure housing and technical education, emphasising their importance as ...

When kids aren’t taught to face discomfort, they often grow into adults who run from responsibility. It’s easy to write someone off as immature or difficult when they refuse to take responsibility for ...

Recently, someone said to me, “Everything that happens to a child is the parent’s fault.” As a parent, that statement immediately carried weight. It suggested that I was responsible not only for how ...

In the hours and days after tragedy strikes, hard questions put to leaders at nearly every level of government about how the loss of life might have been averted or minimized are often swatted aside ...

Psychological research has consistently shown that people protect their self-image by denying responsibility, minimizing harm ...

It shouldn’t be a disciplinary action. It should be a process. When I was in HR, I watched managers dodge conversations about ...