Responsibility OCD involves an exaggerated sense of responsibility and a fear of unintentionally causing harm to others. To some extent, we all feel responsible in life, whether for our loved ones’ ...

For all of us, failure can seem to be a stunning and unexpected upset. Assuming denial is impossible, the natural tendency is to blame the outcome on some transient situational characteristic (e.g., ...

Your employees play as big a role in supporting the financial health of your company as you do -- perhaps even more since their jobs depend on you making a profit and keeping the business operational.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), also known as corporate conscience, refers to a management idea that sees companies integrating social and environmental factors into their operations. CSR ...

Ownership, in its simplest form, means taking responsibility for the work on your plate and following it through to completion. However, in the context of leadership, ownership takes on a much broader ...

Executives have long touted corporate social responsibility—anything from corporate donations granted on behalf of a company to designated days for employees to volunteer in local communities—as a way ...

But simply understanding the need for distributed responsibility is not sufficient if leaders don’t understand what it means to demonstrate responsibility themselves. One way of demonstrating ...

Unlike other general business positions in a company, accountants are bound both by the rules of their organization and by the professional standards of the accounting industry. Accountants have ...

The concept of corporate social responsibility deserves to be challenged. It seems that political correctness has obfuscated the important business points. It is absolutely correct to expect that ...

Interested in these topics? Go here. In his response to my recent post, Sandeep Gautam raises two interesting counter-arguments (or "quibbles," as he calls them). The purpose of the present post is to ...