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Musings from Christopher

Since today is Earth Day, I followed a wikiHow link to read How to Celebrate Earth Day and was at first a bit dismayed that I wasn’t exactly doing any of the recommended steps. Then I read #14 – Ride … Continue reading

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Scholar, author, and leadership commentator Gary Becker posts The Erosion of Individual Responsibility in the influential Becker-Posner Blog. It’s an excellent piece. I recommend you read it. When you do, read it from a Responsibility Redefined™ point of view. You’ll … Continue reading

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Fan Mail arrived in my inbox this morning from Andra Wisian, the talented producer I engaged to pull together a DVD-based training product (watch here on Christopher Avery’s Blog on Responsibility Redefined and on my Responsibility eTips list for launch … Continue reading

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This is a really cute story about responsibility, known as “the Donkey video.” Kudos to the good folks at Spectacular Presentations who created it to honor Alex Mandossian, an internet marketing guru, who uses Aesop’s Fables in his teachings. I … Continue reading

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My life-long friend Stuart Cordell brought this piece to my attention when it was published about a month ago:  Why Learn and Grow on the Job? It’s Much Easier to Feign Infallibility Jared Sandberg wrote it for his Wall Street … Continue reading

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You are invited to this FREE Live Tele-Seminar How to Maximize Performance, Overcome Any Challenge, and Achieve Your Dreams With This Breakthrough Discovery About How People Avoid—or Take—Ownership! Here’s the invitation I sent to folks who attended my recent tele-seminar … Continue reading

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Good ol' Dear Abby asks "What's Wrong With Our World Today?" and publishes reader responses, leading with  . . . (drum roll, please) . . . Personal Responsibility (a lack thereof). See Dear Abby on uExpress Greed, intolerance, and the … Continue reading

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(Published in Responsibility eTips, January 25, 2008. Subscribe) My comments on “personal agility” published in recent days by Agile University and the Cutter Consortium have people begging for more (so they can make up their mind about attending Knowledge Team … Continue reading

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This Christmas greeting went out to all our friends on the Responsibility eTips free subscription list. If you didn't get one, click here and get yourself on the list (only get on the Responsibility eTips list if you want me … Continue reading

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