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Command Responsibility
There was a time when "the buck stops here" applied at the top of an organization. If something bad happened under General Principle's command, he was responsible, whether he ordered it or not, whether he even knew about it or not.

In that time, resignations at the top following events (like, say, Pearl Harbor) were part of the system and in many cases didn't reflect badly on the person resigning. (Unfortunately, Pearl Harbor didn't follow that pattern. Hmmm ...)

Unfortunately, we now have the opposite. Janet Reno might have "taken full responsibility" for Waco, but that was because nothing could touch her -- she certainly never paid any personal price for it. At least in that case, though, she didn't hang any underlings out to dry.

All too often, like with Waco, we have the scene that's developing at HP: the buck-passing, like other forms of sewage, flows downhill and spreads out so that in the end, the responsibility is so widely shared that no one person has enough of it to justify sanctions. Thus, miraculously, "everyone is responsible" once again becomes "nobody can be held accountable."
Posted by: Yagotta B. Kidding   Posted on: 09/11/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Command Responsibility  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/11/06
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Please define fraud!!  YukonRay | 09/12/06
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Yea, you're right.  lsmithes76 | 09/12/06
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My 2 cents  YukonRay | 09/12/06
Rockford Files  mark@... | 09/12/06
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Definition of pretext  m-nature | 09/13/06
Pre-texting definition  Endoscopy | 09/14/06
Is Pretexting Legal or Illegal?  Nasty Jack | 09/12/06
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Excusem  YukonRay | 09/12/06
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