Blame Management (Part 2)
Undocumented, but practised processes of project management
While in Part 1 we introduced ourselves to the significance of this falsely demonised topic in society and companies, it is time now to become more concrete.
This requires a common understanding of what it is all about.
Definition of terms
The English term “blame” has also been very common in the German-speaking world for some time, but there it is increasingly used in its progressive form of “blaming”, i.e. accusing someone of something. In my opinion, we should expand the definition in the corporate environment in such a way that it better fits actual practices:
“Assigning responsibility for negative events or circumstances to the lowest still plausible, but politically most defenceless hierarchical level.”
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