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We’re high on accountability. Deeply rooted in expectation management. So deeply rooted, it can easily default to knowing who’s to blame when expectations aren’t met.
But imagine we were ‘mates’ in a non-racial, non-gender specific and trusted companion kind of way.
I reckon we’d put higher stakes on responsibility. We’d talk and align on intent and action in large or small groups. We'd have each other’s back. We’d speak our truth and hear theirs with best intent. We’d care for and cover each other’s weaknesses. We’d be responsible and resilient. Together.
Responsibility is a place where it’s safe to fail. So unlike accountability’s expectations of failsafe.
We face systemic issues. Their web of inter-relationships removing traces of cause and effect. It’s a mess – a technical term where fixing one problem creates others you can’t see yet.
Tensions remain throughout a mess: Between short-term and long-term, profit and investment, and managing the parts and managing the whole. Our survival and resilience depend on managing all tensions concurrently.
So, how do we find value and be resilient in a mess?
In part, by rethinking and amplifying responsibility. It’ll guide rethinking how we value, and communicate with, our rich diversity of people. There’s value in our mess.
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