Musings Of A Marketer » corporate culture http://www.nastaev.com Blog By Zalim Nastaev Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:36:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Mistakes: Who Is To Blame? http://www.nastaev.com/2008/03/16/mistakes-who-is-to-blame/ http://www.nastaev.com/2008/03/16/mistakes-who-is-to-blame/#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:08:24 +0000 Zalim http://www.nastaev.com/index.php/2008/03/16/mistakes-who-is-to-blame/ If you are a boss, think this over: who is to blame at your company when something goes wrong, or something is done a wrong way? Is it an employee, his line manager, you – the boss, or the company?

If an employee is unskilled, careless, irresponsible – is it him/her or you to blame? How do you ensure that people at your company work their best? Will you let people learn from their mistakes, or you’d rather set the system so that they have already learned the lesson from the history, before they are put in a decision-making situation?

I used to have a boss who put all blame on anybody but himself/his company. The employees would learn from their experience, and got better and better with time. But soon as they had a chance (and believe me they would get a chance once in a while – ’cause the did learn a lot from their mistakes, and they would become valuable staff), they all left the company one by one. None is happy about feeling guilty all the time, even if it’s true every now and then…

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