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When Everyone’s Responsible, No One’s Responsible

Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 19, 2021

That reminds me of the “Responsibility Poem” by American journalist Charles Osgood. The fact is, most people won’t respond to a cry for help, if others are present , because they’ll expect someone else to act. The point being that when everyone’s responsible, no one’s responsible. His poem illustrates this point very clearly.

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In fact, it’s from Stevenson’s list of pressures that pull managers away from entrepreneurship and towards administration. In Boston, I worked with many amazing public managers and a handful of outstanding public entrepreneurs. Of course, that’s not all bad. We must have more great public administrators.

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