Leaders who are relatively new to learning about the mind’s internal Responsibility Process™ often ask:
“What about the person who is too responsible?”
One such question landed recently after I co-presented a webinar with Zach Nies (VP Products, Rally Software) called The Best Kept Secret of Agile Software Quality. Our message was that quality is a 3-legged [...]
The question usually rolls out like a plea for help: What does the Responsibility Process say about someone who takes on too much? I think I’m too responsible because I take on more and more even though I can’t handle more.
Because I can be a little slow, it took me years to figure out that the very best response from me was a probing question. I now reply with “Why do you take on too much?” I now predict with better than 90% accuracy what the leader will say: No one else stepped up and I felt bad it wasn’t going to get done, so I had to do something.
This headline just reported by The Onion (picked up from Twitter. By the way, The Onion’s Twitter id is “theOnion”, mine is “christopheraver”):
Top Story On John McCain Run Out Of Obligation | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
It’s an hilarious spoof on the mindset of “obligation” in the Responsibility Process™. It truly portrays what [...]
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