Marshall Goldsmith in his book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, calls Passing the Buck “one of those terrifying hybrid flaws” where you take “a healthy dose of needing to win and making excuses. Mix it with refusing to apologize and failing to give proper recognition. Sprinkle in a faint hint of punishing the messenger and getting angry. And what you end up with is passing the buck. Blaming others for our mistakes”. And if you haven’t figured it out yet, each of those italicized terms are habits we have previously explored in this series. What do you do? Watch this week’s Vlog and let me know…
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