Behavior Quote by Susan Collins

“The most feared situation is to end up inadvertently in the wrong place at the wrong time and get blamed. Yet this is exactly…

— Robert Jackall

When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the…

— Jack McDevitt

I was working with an extraordinarily successful company that was doing a CEO succession, and the board was discussing the threats to the business.…

— Justin Menkes

Most business leaders don't consider their own causality in the creation of problems. They fail to see that their company could have avoided breakdowns…

— James A. Champy

For many businesses, the fear behind their social media reluctance isn't just fear of failure but of blame and accountability - both individual and…

— Jay Baer

There's no substitute for experiencing ups and downs - seeing how it's okay that things are overwhelming or broken sometimes and how companies recover…

— Joe Lonsdale

One of the problems with industries that have been in relatively long-term declines is that, very often, the managements in those industries develop a…

— Wilbur Ross

If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first…

— Daniel Kahneman

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

— Anonymous

The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

— Ayn Rand

Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to…

— W. Edwards Deming

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence

— Napoleon Bonaparte