This has been a huge theme in my life recently. Taking radical and relentless responsibility for the decisions I have made in my life and the consequences of them, what the yogis call Karma.
It showed up twice today, first in a conversation with my business coach Henri Meijer, and then in an interview, I did with Ryan Caldbeck of Circle Up based on this tweet.
After we have done the work of taking responsibility for own actions and build this habit, we must also look for the same in others.
Henri brought up a great point which is if you see someone who never takes responsibility for their actions run like the plague. It spells trouble.
If they are there when it's good and take responsibility for it, but then when things go bad they disown it, then you never want to do business with that person.
Ryan brought up a framework they use in the company he cofounded, which is the trust equation:
Trust = Credibility + Authenticity + Reliability (responsibility).
This seems to be an elegant equation for building trust within an organization.
