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When Christopher Avery was a management consultant, this was his driving question: Why are so many smart people unhappy at work?

25 years ago, Christopher realized that the most useful skills he was teaching his smart, ambitious, professional clients were coping skills. They needed coping skills because they were stuck in a suffocating culture that systematically disempowered and controlled them. An insidious control cycle kept well-meaning, high-performing leaders and key contributors at all levels from doing their best, taking risks, learning, and operating with freedom, power and choice for the organizations’ best interests.

His own career trajectory changed forever when Christopher began working with an emerging behavioral science framewo
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Will my schedule keep me from participating in Responsibility Immersion?

Laura from Minnesota writes.

I’m interested in your new offering of an online immersion course.

Right now we are in Thailand, so the times for the classes are pretty 
late for me. I checked the dates, and several after we leave Asia are on travel days, even more difficult.

Normally I would say I should wait for the next semester. But I’m facing some personal decisions and think a c

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“And, if the environment penalizes people for actually taking responsibility—for thinking for themselves, and being proactive in solving the real problem instead of doing as they are told—then even good, smart, caring people will avoid taking responsibility, and the work will suffer.”
Christopher Avery, The Responsibility Process: Unlocking Your Natural Ability to Live and Lead with Power

“Historically, management has overfocused the accounting aspect of performance management and underfocused on people’s natural willingness and ability to respond. […] The more we focus on driving accountability into the person, team, or organization, the more we thwart people from taking responsibility. […] Accountability is based on a credible threat. Thus it is perceived as a negative, not a positive, relationship process. So with it comes fear. And when fear goes up, responsibility goes down.”
Christopher Avery, The Responsibility Process: Unlocking Your Natural Ability to Live and Lead with Power

“And, if the environment penalizes people for actually taking responsibility—for thinking for themselves, and being proactive in solving the real problem instead of doing as they are told—then even good, smart, caring people will avoid taking responsibility, and the work will suffer.”
Christopher Avery, The Responsibility Process: Unlocking Your Natural Ability to Live and Lead with Power

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