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Responsibility vs. Fault Ratio

CaseInterview.com

Fault = You created a problem due to an error you made. Responsibility = It’s your job to fix the problem. For most individual contributor roles, it is your responsibility to fix any mistakes that were your fault. I call this 1:1 responsibility to fault ratio. You clean up any messes you make. Here’s why.

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Your Fault vs. Your Responsibility

CaseInterview.com

I teach the people I mentor that leadership means accepting responsibility for things that aren’t your fault. The aspiring leader realizes a problem may not be her fault, but will often make it her responsibility to fix it. If something goes wrong, she says, "I didn’t make a mistake. You can’t blame me for that one.

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Seth's Blog: Lead up

Seth Godin Blog

Mumbo vs. Jumbo. Mumbo vs. Jumbo. If the work is lousy, it's the client's fault. If the boss doesn't see or understand your insight, that's his fault. Demand responsibility, don't worry about authority. Recent Posts. "Oh, Oh, thats just a hack someone put together.". The sophisticates.

System 50
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How Safe Are Blockchains? It Depends.

Harvard Business

Consensus Protocols and Access Permissions in Public vs. Private Blockchains. In a private blockchain, by contrast, operators can choose to permit only certain nodes to perform the verification process, and these trusted parties would be responsible for communicating newly verified transactions to the rest of the network.

System 35
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LEK Consulting Interview

CaseInterview.com

She offers tips for successfully using LOMS and I include my response where I go into more detail on the best way to prepare for a consulting interview with LEK. The final observation I'll make is that the additional knowledge that those who did well had vs. those who did not wasn't that much in terms of quantity. Consulting.

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Plague of Gold Bears Now Say "Gold Unsafe at Any Price"

MishTalk

The Monetary Elite vs. Gold's Honest Discipline. To the latter we would point out that real interest rates (nominal interest rates relative to inflation expectations) have indeed risen lately, but it was certainly not the Feds fault. Debate: Mish vs. Dr. Doom. Psychology of Trading. Empire of Debt. Just What I Said.

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How Tribalism Hurts Companies, and What to Do About It

Harvard Business

This environment sets the stage for functional units to adopt a mindset that is more “us vs. them” rather than “us vs. our competitors.” In fact, in the end, the only thing the team above could agree on was that it was the customer’s fault their new product had failed! “ Pushkin did it.”

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