Don't Blame Others!

 I keep sharing with my Team that in our Startup Jeevitam where we are trying to Solve the Problem at a Scale that is unprecedented and use Technology that is Innovative & Evolving, many times things will not go the way we had planned. And when it does happen (which happens many times), while we are looking at the reasons, I keep telling my Team not to blame any individual while doing the assessment. We need to relook at the Process, retest the system and try everything to make the whole experience people agnostic i.e. irrespective of the person who is managing the experience, things should go as planned. In my experience when we assign blame to someone, in our mind we are trying to make others accountable. However, Blaming Others does not solve a problem, it usually only makes people defensive, nobody wants to accept the blame, it's quite natural. We forget, when We Blame Others, We give up the Power to Change Ourselves.

"If we are looking to inspire people then blaming is the last thing we want to do. To inspire others, we need to focus our attention on the solution, not the blame. No good comes from blame, good comes from finding a way to correct the situation" ~ Kate Summers. All of us from the Corporate World has experienced what I call 'Mail-Mail' Culture. The person seated next to you will prefer sending a mail instead of talking out to you. Nobody wants to be blamed for anything going wrong, everyone wants to play safe, hence sending mail and creating a record. In the last over 30 Years of my Corporate/Startup Journey, I have always built Teams and tried to hire the Best. But in spite of the best HR Teams and the best process & systems being followed, we could not always hire the best, we failed many times. We always did introspection as to where we were wrong, however, I have come to the conclusion that many times in spite of the best efforts human relationships do not pan out the way we had imagined. In these situations, instead of Blaming each other, we should accept that it's not working and Move on. No one is Perfect, Everyone has their Perspective and We do not achieve anything by Blaming Others.

Many the Startupreneurs like me go through what I call the Startup Dilemma. When we make a pitch to our Prospective Investors or Corporate Clients, we always do not get a positive response as we are trying to do something Innovative, something Big, which we feel they are not able to understand. My Mentor keeps reminding me that instead of Blaming Others, We should introspect about whether We are making something relevant, something interesting, or something simple for them to invest in or buy our proposition. I believe when something is not working, the easiest thing is to blame others, we can blame people, we can blame society, we can blame the administration, we can blame the country, we can blame the pandemic but not blame ourselves and that takes away our power to get better results in every aspect of our life. We all need to introspect when things do not go the way we expected, make changes wherever required, focus on fixing the problem, and Take Charge. Don't Blame Others & Keep Moving Forward. 

Happy Sunday!! Keep Moving & Smiling!!🏃🏽😊

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