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Message: [QUOTE="rnabokov, post: 3164288, member: 1847"] Good point this. When ego drives a culture, as you describe above, one consequence is you end up with culture of blame rather than one grounded in accountability. It's myopic. Accountability on the other hand is not the same thing as blame or punishment. To be accountable means to take responsibility for results, good or bad. It means finding answers to problems and applying lessons learned in order to improve. A culture of blame focuses attention and attitude on the small picture, and evading accountability for one's own shortcomings by blaming someone else. It's the easy way out. It protects ego. Blame too often assumes that people, not the systems they operate in, are the problem. Blame is focused on the past and on punishing the offender. The thinking behind assigning blame is that identifying the offender and punishing them will correct the poor behaviour. Wrong. The reality is that the only thing people learn from being blamed is to become better at hiding their mistakes, and blaming someone else for them. It's corrosive, it's divisive, it becomes personal. Nobody ends up caring about anything but themselves. Being accountable is instead constructive because it focuses on the systems which create problems, on the future, future solutions. What our leaders, board, coach and players fail to realize is that if they aren’t managing their culture, their culture is managing them. So the question becomes: is your culture working for you, or against you? No wonder we have a club divided. It is a failure of leadership with the predictable results as we are seeing. [/QUOTE]

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