At the Summit Conference it was hard to choose which session I liked most but one of the top contenders was when there was a Q&A Session with Dave Ramsey, Jim Collins, and Patrick Lencioni. During that session one of the speakers (I forget who) talked about a person's relationship to blame. According to him there are two ways in which we view blame...either looking through a window or in a mirror.
The point he was making is those who never take ownership of their mistakes or shortcomings place the blame on other people or the situation. Their relationship to blame is through a window. They can see who and what all played a role in the blame but they never see themselves.
On the other hand, those who do take ownership of their mistakes and shortcomings see their blame in a mirror. They place the responsibility on themselves. They own it. They claim it. They don't hide from it. They don't put it on others. They alone stand in the mirror and see how they themselves are responsible.
When someone is to blame it can be easy to look out a window but true leaders and valuable team members will pick up a mirror in those situations. They will look deep into that mirror and study what went wrong. Then they will put the mirror down and get on with making it right.
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