When do you pass the buck and when do you take the blame? New research shows most of us only cop to failures if they can’t be attributed to something – or someone - else. But when we dodge accountability, we prevent ourselves from learning.
When We Learn From Failure (and When We Don’t)
It mostly has to do with whether we can blame somebody else.
May 28, 2014
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