Leadership Thought of the Day: Who’s to Blame?

Jake Wilder
2 min readJan 18, 2022

Great leaders look for systems, not scapegoats.

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Something goes wrong and what do we do? We look for who screwed up. Whether through bad intentions or shear incompetence, we like having a clear reason for why something bad happened.

It reinforces our view that we have agency in the world. We talk about individual responsibility and accountability because the…

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Jake Wilder

I don’t know where I’m going. But at least I know how to get there.