Radical responsibility means treating people like tools

A lot of people think that good leadership requires radical responsibility. Conscious Leadership defines it like this: Taking full responsibility for one’s circumstances (physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually) is the foundation of true personal and relational transformation. Conscious leadership and teams take full responsibility – radical responsibility – instead of placing blame. This means locating the cause and control of our lives in ourselves, not in external events. Good leaders are outcome-focused. They are interested in actually succeeding, not in role-playing someone who’s trying to succeed1. Placing blame is an excellent strategy for that kind of role-playing: if you can identify someone else who screwed up, you can claim to be trying to succeed no matter how badly you fail. When you look at people who are genuinely focused on winning, they don’t spend time blaming when things go wrong. They’re always focused on their outs: the remaining pathways to success,…