Author: D. Justin Coates Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN: 0199860823 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 331
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What is it to blame someone, and when are would-be blamers in a position to do so? What function does blame serve in our lives, and is it a valuable way of relating to one another? The essays in this volume explore answers to these and related questions.
Author: Christopher Hood Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691162123 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 239
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The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed. In The Blame Game, Christopher Hood takes a different approach by showing how blame avoidance shapes the workings of government and public services. Arguing that the blaming phenomenon is not all bad, Hood demonstrates that it can actually help to pin down responsibility, and he examines different kinds of blame avoidance, both positive and negative. Hood traces how the main forms of blame avoidance manifest themselves in presentational and "spin" activity, the architecture of organizations, and the shaping of standard operating routines. He analyzes the scope and limits of blame avoidance, and he considers how it plays out in old and new areas, such as those offered by the digital age of websites and e-mail. Hood assesses the effects of this behavior, from high-level problems of democratic accountability trails going cold to the frustrations of dealing with organizations whose procedures seem to ensure that no one is responsible for anything. Delving into the inner workings of complex institutions, The Blame Game proves how a better understanding of blame avoidance can improve the quality of modern governance, management, and organizational design.
Author: John G. Miller Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780399152337 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 136
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The lack of personal accountability is a problem that has resulted in an epidemic of blame, victim thinking, complaining, and procrastination. No organization—or individual—can successfully compete in the marketplace, achieve goals and objectives, provide outstanding service, engage in exceptional teamwork, or develop people without personal accountability. John G. Miller believes that the troubles that plague organizations cannot be solved by pointing fingers and blaming others. Rather, the real solutions are found when each of us recognizes the power of personal accountability. In QBQ! The Question Behind the Question®, Miller explains how negative, ill-focused questions like “Why do we have to go through all this change?” and “Who dropped the ball?” represent a lack of personal accountability. Conversely, when we ask better questions—QBQs—such as “What can I do to contribute?” or “How can I help solve the problem?” our lives and our organizations are transformed. THE QBQ! PROMISE This remarkable and timely book provides a practical method for putting personal accountability into daily actions, with astonishing results: problems are solved, internal barriers come down, service improves, teams thrive, and people adapt to change more quickly. QBQ! is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to learn, grow, and change. Using this tool, each of us can add tremendous worth to our organizations and to our lives by eliminating blame, victim-thinking, and procrastination. QBQ! was written more than a decade ago and has helped countless readers practice personal accountability at work and at home. This version features a new foreword, revisions and new material throughout, and a section of FAQs that the author has received over the years.
Author: Bruce Lawson Publisher: Bruce Lawson ISBN: 1622740378 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 29
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Who Can We Blame Now, is about promoting awareness thru opinionated facts, personal experienses, and insight as the result of countless conversations with other African Americans through out the years about what goes on in our communities, such as lack of unity, the crabs in the bucket syndrone, and of corse, the blaming of other races particularly white for every socioeconomical downfall in our inner cities. If youre someone who is logical and accepts reality with no excuses, then this subject matter and the words you are about to read is as real and logical as it gets, and I wrote no excuses.
Author: Cynthia Garrett Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1684510694 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 212
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It’s Time to Live a Victorious Life This book is about victory. You can win right now. The choice is yours. Overcoming obstacles from sexual abuse to social injustices, Cynthia Garrett rose to influence in Hollywood. Yet it wasn’t until she realized what the war against victimization is really about that she found the freedom, victory, and peace she sought. She wants you to experience it, too. Through faith and personal examples, Garrett shows you how to confront the victim mindset, quit playing the blame game, defeat fear, and address pride and power. You’ll learn how to navigate the war zones—personal, spiritual, and political—of daily life. In the midst of all life throws at you, there are two constants: God’s unconditional love and the ability it gives you to live a victorious life. I Choose Victory will: challenge your thought patterns; encourage spiritual and personal growth; and equip you to win.
Author: Phillip Mikle Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1644169738 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 101
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The church has become one of the most hated organizations in the world. Almost every day, Christians are walking away from the church because its teachings have become more about money and materialism rather than God. We can clearly see that the heart of the church is leaning more toward prosperity than toward God. Preaching the Word of God has also become nothing more than another way of making a living, and the pulpits are full of false preachers who are taking full advantage of this. And because of the false doctrines of "tithing" and "seed, sow, and harvest," families are being ripped apart. Husbands are leaving their wives because they're giving their last dollar to the preachers and vice versa. This has been a strategy for a long time that the enemy has been using against Christians by teaching them false doctrines while concealing the truth. In Phillip A. Mikle Sr.'s eye-opening book Blame It on the Church, it uncovers God's most kept secret from mankind "THE MYSTERY ABOUT THE TRINITY," God is not three persons but one. This book unmasks the world's biggest scams which are "Tithing and seed, sow, and harvest." You will be informed about false preachers who the author calls "smooth criminals." This book uncovers the truth about "once saved, always saved, God will not allow his son to simply be an escape route on judgment day. And you will learn the truth about what is really going to happen when Christ returns to Earth. Like it or not, these are facts and this book is a must-read. The author makes it plain and simple for anyone who desperately want to know the truth. And, don't get upset when you discover why many are pointing their fingers at the church and blaming it. Also, in this book the author addresses the #TIMESUP #METOO MOVEMENT, and including EVERY WOMAN that EXISTS on the face of this earth.
Author: Jürgen Habermas Publisher: Polity ISBN: 0745630103 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 204
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We live in a time of turbulent change when many of the frameworks that have characterized our societies over the last few centuries – such as the international order of sovereign nation-states – are being called into question. In this new volume of essays and interviews, Habermas focuses his attention on these processes of change and provides some of the resources needed to understand them. What kind of international order should we seek to create in our contemporary global age? How should we understand the political project of Europe and how can the democratic deficit of the EU be overcome? How should we understand the relation between democracy as popular sovereignty, which has become the defining principle of political legitimacy in the modern world, and the idea of basic human rights embodied in the rule of law? Habermas brings his formidable powers of analysis and his distinctive theoretical perspective to bear on these and other key questions of the modern age. His analysis is shaped throughout by his commitment to informed public debate and his powerful advocacy of a postnational renewal of the project of constitutional democracy. Time of Transitions will be essential reading for all students and scholars of sociology and politics, and it will be of interest to anyone concerned with the key social and political questions of our time.
Author: Clodagh Chapman Publisher: Arena books ISBN: 190679152X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 216
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On a hot August day in 1871, all appears normal in a small busy market town in Suffolk, when disaster strikes, and many lives are lost, other changed forever, and vital questions remain unanswered.
Author: Sharon Lamb Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674910119 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 260
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This work looks at the topic of victimisation and blame as a pathology for our time, and its consequences for personal responsibility.
Author: D. Justin Coates
Author: Christopher Hood
Author: John G. Miller
Author: Bruce Lawson
Author: Cynthia Garrett
Author: Willie Jolley
Author: Phillip Mikle
Author: Jürgen Habermas
Author: Clodagh Chapman
Author: Sharon Lamb