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Confront Reality to Avoid Living Within the Lie

I teach leaders that the third, and hardest Key to Responsibility™, i.e., to mastering your responsibility, and hence your freedom, choice, and power, is “Confront.” That means to continually face the truth about a problem or upset, to see things as they are instead of as you would like them to be or hope—or more [...]

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Agile Over the Sea

Strange Attractors
I skipped the Toronto Agile 2008 conference this year in  August. But when the call for proposals was out back in January I heard from Portia Tung that she’d read my article on Personal Agility and wished I would present Responsibility Redefined™ in Toronto. I appreciated that since I’d presented at the 2004-2007 conferences. [...]

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Answers to Why People Refuse to Accept Responsibility

Ask Christopher Avery, my monthly “first Tuesday” Blog Talk Radio show (which you are listening to right now), this month addressed six important questions submitted by listeners. Maybe I’ll answer your question next time…

Q: Why do so many folks refuse to accept personal responsibility, preferring to pass blame onto their spouse, business partner, children, etc.?
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Upcoming “Tame Your Teenager” Interview

Watch this video of parenting expert Mark Todhunter and then read below about my upcoming interview with Mark.
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Every time I speak about the Responsibility Process™ and your 3 Keys to Responsibility™ men and women approach me afterwords and ask “Christopher, when are you going to have the products and services for me to use with [...]

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From Shame to Responsibility—How a CIO Finds Freedom

Last week in Mexico a CIO courageously told me and the roomful of people I had just introduced to Responsibility Redefined™ that my presentation showed him the way to freedom from his shame. Out of respect, I won’t tell you which presentation in which city (I addressed four groups in three days), but here’s his [...]

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